Review Assistant 2.7
eview Assistant is a peer code review tool which integrates with popular control systems namely: TFS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git and Perforce. It is an plugin for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 developed to enhance the team development process. The tool includes support for formal code review and allows users to add comments to a piece of code or to the entire review level.
Key features:
- Integration into Visual Studio allows users to concentrate on the working process, inspecting colleagues' work and leaving notes within the project context
- Simple review process. The application relieves developers of the tedious formal meetings. Devart's code review tool is easy in setting up and usage; flexible workflow settings can be adapted to existing review schemes.
- Forum-like code discussion. Review Assistant is designed to help developers to add general comments to the entire review, or to add comments to a specific line of the code; leave comments in a threaded fashion to allow other participants to discuss code without formal meetings
- Formal reviews include primary roles, defined but non-restrictive work-flows
- Ad-hoc reviews provide an opportunity to leave an inline comment, mark it as a defect and assign to a person to fix it without starting formal review process
- Integration with most popular version control systems namely: TFS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git and Perforce
- Adding comments to blocks of code. Review Assistant allows to add comments to a block of code. Ability to select either a word, or several code lines to add a comment. A block of code with a comment is highlighted with the orange border for more convenience
- Email notifications. Review Assistant allows developers to set up email notifications about events which occur when the review is in progress
- Code review reports. Printed code review reports for companies that conduct external compliance review such as PA-DSS
- Review comments in Visual Studio built-in diff tool
Requirements
Changes: 2.7
* Review comments in Visual Studio built-in diff tool
* The 'Resume Review' action
* Smarter revision picking algorithm for a comparison
