Crucible is a lightweight tool for conducting online peer code reviews. It allows users to initiate reviews with one click, view diffs in their browser or IDE, and add inline comments. Key benefits of code reviews include improved code quality, early detection and correction of defects, familiarity with code, facilitation of mentoring, and an audit trail. Crucible supports many version control systems and browsers and notifications keep developers informed of review feedback without leaving their IDE.
1. Peer code review
Crucible is a
lightweight
collaboration tool for
conducting effective
peer code review.
Reviews are initiated
with a single click, diffs
are viewed right in
your browser or IDE,
and comments are
added in-line.
What is code review
Whenever members of a team check
another team member’s code, code
review is occurring. Benets of regular
code review include:
Crucible’s online reviews replace physical meetings,
heavyweight workow engines or cobbled-together • Improve code quality
• Find and correct defects early
in-house tools. You can quickly organize asynchronous • Ensure familiarity with your code
code reviews anytime. Pull artifacts from your code • Facilitate mentoring
repository or even a pre-commit review - simply upload • Provide an audit trail
your patch and Crucible will automatically include the Who uses Crucible?
relevant artifacts. All the material is in one place, so BNP Paribas, Bose Corporation,
you can easily jump between les, drill down to detailed Cafepress.com, Cisco Systems,
diff analysis, and view change history. Harvard Business School, Intel,
Juniper Networks, Lockheed Martin,
As soon as you spot a potential problem in the MuleSource, NASA, Raley’s, Royal Bank
of Scotland, Time Warner Cable, UPS,
code, simply select the line(s) of code you want to Washington Mutual, and many others.
comment on and start typing, or reply to someone
else’s comments. Email, IM and RSS notications Did you know?
relay instant feedback to developers who never have A free plugin development kit is
available for you to build extensions
to leave their IDE to view or act upon any code review to Crucible. www.atlassian.com/
comments. developers
2. A better way to review
Crucible is great because it makes
code reviews easy: just click on a line
and enter your comment.
Jonathan Aquino, Ning
System Requirements
JDK or JRE version 1.5+. Supports
Subversion, CVS, Perforce. Firefox, IE,
or Safari.
About Atlassian
Atlassian is an innovative global
software company. More than 15,000
customers in 100 countries, including
30 of the world’s top 50 corporations.
Over 400+ free plugins built and
supported by the Atlassian community
Our lustworthy products are designed
to stand alone, however, their
integration capabilities make them even
more useful. Atlassian products include: Create Create a review from anywhere – all you need is
a browser.
JIRA: Issue tracking
FishEye: Repository insight Comment Critique and collaborate.
Crucible: Code review
Bamboo: Continuous integration Inspect Know your code. Catch those bugs.
Clover: Code coverage
Conuence: Enterprise wiki Search Search your reviews, search your code.
Crowd: Single sign-on
JIRA Studio: Hosted development suite Workow Manage the review process.
Try Crucible today! Notications Choose how and when you want to be notied
Get a free, fully functional 30-day about reviews.
evaluation license of Crucible:
www.atlassian.com/crucible Metrics Label, tag, classify.
Audit trail No worries: your reviews are on permanent
Pricing* record.
Team - 10 ........................... $1,200
Workgroup - 25.................. $2,200
IDE Connector Perform and manage reviews without even
leaving your IDE.
Enterprise - 100 ................. $4,000
Unlimited............................ $8,000
Pluggable repositories Connect directly to your external repositories.
Academic licenses are available for 50% off
the listed prices. Crucible is free to qualifying
Open Source projects or Non-Pro t & Charity
organisations.
* Prices subject to change.