Code reviews

A code review is a selection of categories and rules that focus on an aspect of software quality (such as globalization) or a software property (such as severity). For example the Quick code review is a selection of rules that all have the highest severity level, which is “problem.” Note that if you change one of the rules in this code review to have a different severity level, that rule will no longer appear in the Quick code review.

Benefits

The automated code review tool adds value to the software development process in several ways because it performs the following tasks:

Because the automated process is quick, you can run code reviews often. The code review findings let you catch and correct problems early, when it is easiest and cheapest to make changes.

List of supplied code reviews

The following code reviews are supplied:

Each code review is explained in detail in its own topic.

Related concepts
Code review rules
Rule categories
Related tasks
Reviewing code automatically
Running code reviews
Configuring code reviews
Related reference
Prerequisites for running code reviews
Rule Category Descriptions
Types of code review
Code Review view
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