Code Review Tools

Code review is very common activity within static testing technique. You can try it yourself in Test Puzzles on this blog. Development team should use a tool to code review which will help them in their work. Professional Tester should know some of them. Below there is a list and short description each of them.

Free Tools

ReviewBoard - Web-based tool supported Bazaar, ClearCase, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, and Subversion. (Very good tool)

Phabricator - Web-based tool supported Git, Subversion and Mercurial. (Very good tool)

Gerrit - Web-based tool written in Java integrates with Git. (Good tool)

Rietveld - Web-based tool supported Subversion only. (Poor tool)

AgileReview - It is a Eclipse Plugin (Poor tool)

Jupiter - Another Eclipse Plugin (Poor tool)

Commercial Tools

Crucible - Web-based tool from Atlassian (JIRA) supporting SVN, Hg, Git, Perforce, and CVS

Code Collaborator - Huge tool, web-based and plugins for Eclipse and Visual Studio supporting 16 Version Control Systems

Kiln - Web-based tool support Mercurial Version Control

Code Review Tool - Web-based, but only works on Windows, tool supporting SVN, Git and Perforce

Spectare - Plugin for Visual Studio

In my opinion free code review tools are very functional and there is no need buy special tool, but Crucible is a good tool for these who use JIRA, these two tools can be integrated. I have used ReviewBoard for over one year and I recommend this tool also for you.