Comments on: Frictionless Code Reviews

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:12:53 +0000

Hey I just found this look also might be useful for everyone
http://confluence.atlassian.co.....RAEXT/JIRA Commit Acceptance Plugin

Now if i could only figure out how to make jira automatically create crucible reviews after an issue is closed.

By: Writing an SVN PreCommit Hook in .NET that integrates with Jira | Caffeinated Coder

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:26:13 +0000

[...] We use it to ensure that developers enter a valid Jira key into the commit notes, which is a crucial step in making our code review process as painless as possible. [...]

By: Jesse Gibbs

Jesse Gibbs — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:46:56 +0000

Hey Russell, you might want to take a look at Crucible again, as we’ve just released version 2.0. Atlassian’s dev teams use agile methods (pick n’ pull elements of Scrum/Kanban/XP/TDD), and code review is a key part of our process. Crucible does not force you into a heavy-weight process nor does it make you particularly agile. It’s just a tool for collaborating, similar to email, wikis, etc.

By: dru

dru — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:45:25 +0000

@Nathan: you beat me to the question about http://www.review-board.org/

-d

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:26:55 +0000

@Nathan – I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation!

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:25:35 +0000

@Marshal – We actually did evaluate Crucible back in the Spring. I was enamored with the GUI magic that allows you to add comments inline and associate them directly with lines of code. However, we ultimately decided against it because it seemed more geared towards a formal review process with multiple people, complex workflow, and heavy collaboration needs. We were looking to streamline our review process but that would have ended up adding a minimum of a half dozen clicks for each issue. It was a shame because we really wanted to make it work for us.

By: marshal

marshal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:14:25 +0000

Have you checked out crucible? http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/ integrates into fisheye and jira

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:37:40 +0000

Nice post. These look like interesting tools. Out of curiosity have you tried integrating Review Board (http://www.review-board.org/) into your process? It make code-reviews virtually painless.