TeamReview is a codeplex project which idea is to enable and simplify the process of code review in a development team. Tool is working as a Visual Studio Add-in, connected to Team Foundation Server. The tool is actually very simple and lightweight. It uses Team System and Visual Studio extensibility and make the review process easy and transparent. The process of submitting feedback with TeamReview creates a new work item in the Team System project that includes the entered feedback, highlighted code, file name, line numbers, and names of the Project, Namespace and Type. The work item is a new work item type, Code Review Response, that is shipped as part of the TeamReview download . As you can see on the codeplex project site the advantages of TeamReview are:
- No/less code review meetings necessary
- Same place/Same time obstacles are overcome
- Makes code review analytics/forensics possible
- Easier to split up code reviews both over time and to many people
- Accountability – can easily determine if any review feedback was submitted and if that feedback was implemented
- Ability to create predefined in-IDE code walk-throughs by any developer on your project without requiring your attendance
More about business value of TeamReview read on JB Brown blog.
April 1, 2009 at 6:58 am
New version of TeamReview (version 1.09) was released on March 28 and it now supports review of the DB Projects and there is also some other minor changes and bug fixes.