Collaborative Code Review Tools

[foehl]

I would like to see some tools included in blue Prism to enable and facilitate procedural code reviews.

Code reviews are an essential part of most development work and in the traditional software development world there are a multitude of tools to help people review each others code to spot bugs or suggest improvements.

The majority of these tools can be used for text-based code regardless of language but do not allow for use with low-code development products such as RPA platforms. This is doubly an issue with Blue Prism as a lot of tools work through integration with source control systems such as GIT and SVN. As Blue Prism does its own version control, this precludes the use of even those parts of the code review mechanism.

So, it would be good to either see a way of integrating one or more of these solutions with Blue prism, or providing tools within Blue Prism to allow for this.

That would include things such as :

1. Notifications to predefined users on changes to business objects or processes.
2. Options to enforce (or not) review and sign-off on changes before code can be published or promoted to production
3. Commenting tools (and not just the note block) which allow for actions such as @mentions to other users, replies and closing of comment threads
4. Identification or tagging of issues that are critical vs comments that are for info only
5. etc...

There are far more features that could be included along the lines of those included in traditional development code review packages or even along the lines of the review tools found in Word