Code reviews are a valuable part of any software development effort. Agile development processes provide the opportunity to integrate reviews closer to the actual development .

Jupiter

Jupiter is a plugin for the eclipse platform that enables developers to communicate over specific lines of code. The plugin comes with a suggested process for code reviews. The process suggests a three phase approach starting with inspecting the code and logging review items.  A quick demo of this process can be viewed here. When a section of code raises quality concerns, the reviewer notes the issue in Jupiter for later discussion. Once the initial review is completed, the process moves into the second phase which is to discuss the items that were identified. As each item is approved for rework it is updated and assigned to a developer. In the third phase, the developer works through the list of issues that were assigned to him. This process can be used in agile code reviews as well.

Read the rest of this entry »