Read a post about Mondrian – a code reviewing system that Python creator Guido van Rossum created at Google. (on Niall Kennedy’s blog) It looks very impressive. Unfortunately it is restricted to Google and not open source’d yet since it relies heavily on Google technology.
I have been doing some code reviews at work, and I think it would be wonderful to have such a system. Something that would work on top of SVN and uses SQLite, will be just about perfect.
I have myself not yet looked at other code reviewing tools, but would love to hear from people who’ve used some. What works, and what does not?
My company, Smart Bear Software, makes a commercial tool for peer code review called Code Collaborator. It integrates with many SCM systems, including SVN, Perforce, CVS, and, Clear Case, to get review content and can be backed by MySQL (support for other databases is in progress).
We have also published a book about peer code review, which you can get a free copy of just by signing up at our website. It includes many of the lessons we’ve learned about peer code review working with our customers and includes a case study of ~2500 code reviews done at Cisco Systems using our tool. http://codereviewbook.com