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Team Collaboration for Code Review

Team Collaboration for Code Review supports out-of-the-box peer reviews of code changes during a project development cycle. A developer who finishes code changes and unit tests can create a review request for other team members to review the code review.

The review request facilitates the collaboration between the requester and the reviewers in the team. The review request also facilitates the execution of the code review as follows:

• The creation of a review request for code changes is based on a change package.
• An email notification option for both reviewer and requester informs team members of relevant information during the code review cycle.

  Note: For more information about configuring the email notification option, see the Administrator Guide.

• Reviewers can record in-line comments or add attachments on versions in the change package.
• An assigned primary reviewer gives a final vote on the approval or rejection of code changes, and can close a review request.
• A package approval can be invoked when the primary reviewer closed the review request.
• A pre-linked UDP can be used to enforce the completion of code review request before the change package is promoted to the next state.

  Note: For more information about this integration option, see the Administrator Guide.

With this support, a code review is no longer an isolated individual manual operation. Instead, it organizes group efforts with direct and indirect communication among team members in a project to accomplish the review of code changes. Furthermore, all activities are recorded during the code review cycle.