With the introduction of the Code Review feature in Plastic SCM 2.0, reviews get easier than ever. Whether you're doing formal inspections or just informal walkthroughs, this new integrated capability will make its own contribution to spread a best practice like code reviewing. We all know even an informal walkthrough or just reviewing you colleague's code can make a huge different in defect removal and hence in final's product quality. If so, why are we normally so reluctant to run such reviews? Normally because of the lack of the proper tools, but having it properly integrated as part of Plastic SCM enables its seamless use everywhere.
Compare two baselines, or just the content of a bugfix branch, see what changed on that maintenance branch, or what happened on a given changeset. This picture gives an overview of a sample code review, performing the review of the task implemented on a branch:
