This topic provides tips on using Code Review effectively.

Setup Tips

To make it easy to associate code review results with the appropriate DTP projects, be sure that your Test Configuration (Common tab> Session Tag) specifies a unique session tag that can be used as a filter when you set up your project. We recommend that you 1) Set up your tool’s "General Project" preferences option (for details, see Connecting to Parasoft Development Testing Platform) and 2) Set up the Test Configuration Session Tag to also use a project variable.
- Setting up the "General Project" preferences option and using the ${general_project} variable works well in most cases. However, if multiple projects are within a single solution or workspace, use ${project_name} for the Session Tag variable instead of ${general_project}. For more information on variables, see Using Variables in Preference Settings.
If your Parasoft solution uses Team Server Named Accounts, ensure that Team Server user accounts can access the Team Server 'Code Review' directory. For details on opening the appropriate path permissions, see the 'Named Accounts' section of the Development Testing Platform documentation.
Ensure that reviewing responsibilities are distributed across team members. If one person is responsible for reviewing a large amount of code, the code review may become overwhelming.

Author Tips

For post-commit code reviews - When you check in code to the source control repository, enter comments that will help the reviewer quickly determine the purpose and nature of the change.

Review code daily to prevent the reviews from accumulating. If reviews are not addressed regularly, code review will become an overwhelming task.
For post-commit code reviews - Read the developer’s check in comments (available in a tool tip over the revision branch) before reviewing each revision, then let this inform how deeply you review the code. For instance, you might want to dedicate more time to inspecting a revision for a re-implemented algorithm than for inspecting a revision for a minor cosmetic change.