What is Review Board?
Review Board is an open source web-based code review and project management tool designed for software teams who want to improve code quality through peer review. It allows developers to collaboratively review code changes, discuss modifications, and approve merge requests before changes enter the main codebase.
Some key features of Review Board include:
- Syntax-highlighted code diffs to easily identify changes
- Inline comments allowing line-by-line discussion
- Customizable workflows to match your team's processes
- Integrations with Git, SVN, Mercurial, and other version control systems
- Powerful search for rapid access to past reviews
- Review requests to gather feedback from specific individuals
- Dashboards, reports, email notifications to aid team collaboration
By incorporating peer code reviews into your development process with Review Board, teams can reduce bugs and security issues, improve code quality, distribute knowledge, and align to coding best practices - leading to more robust and maintainable software.