Rawat - Getting Started with Reviewboard

Getting Started with Review Board Analyze and improve your code using the collaborative code review tool, Review Board Sandeep Rawat BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Getting Started with Review Board Copyright 2014 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals.

However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: February 2014 Production Reference: 1140214 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78328-199-2 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Aniket Sawant (aniket_sawant_photography@hotmail.com) Credits AuthorProject Coordinator Sandeep Rawat Ankita Goenka ReviewersProofreader Daniel Arbuckle Paul Hindle Prakash Jat Dennis Mnuskin Indexer Vaibhav Sehgal Rekha Nair Acquisition EditorsGraphics Usha Iyer Ronak Dhruv Rubal Kaur Yuvraj Mannari Content Development EditorProduction Coordinator Shaon Basu Aditi Gajjar Patel Technical EditorsCover Work Ankita Jha Aditi Gajjar Patel Dennis John Copy Editors Insiya Morbiwala Kirti Pai Shambhavi Pai About the Author Sandeep Rawat is a passionate DevOps consultant who has extensive knowledge of build and release automation along with skills to manage a secure and scalable cloud infrastructure. He is an expert at streamlining build and release processes, and he has used them to achieve multiple, smooth build and releases per day at one of India's popular e-commerce website, Snapdeal. Currently, he is associated with Mettl, an online assessment solution for testing technical, aptitude, and psychometric skills.

He works there as a DevOps consultant. Sandeep is also an avid blogger. He blogs at http://sandy4blogs.blogspot.in/. In his spare time, he loves to work on various utilities; these can be found on his GitHub profile at https://github.com/sandy724. His recent technology love is Puppet and Cloud Hosting. I would like to thank my parents, my wife, and my son for always trusting me, standing by my side, and being my source of inspiration.

I would also like to thank my friends Prakash and Vaibhav; it would have been difficult to finish this book without their valuable input; the book would have been an altogether different one. I would like to thank Ashish, for giving me the privilege to write this book, and Rubal, for always giving me that special piece of advice and keeping me focused. A special note of thanks to Ankita, who kept on chasing me to make sure that I finish the book well within time; she is the reason that I was able to finish the book on time. About the Reviewers Daniel Arbuckle is a published researcher in the fields of robotics and nanotechnology as well as a professional Python programmer. He is the author of Python Testing: Beginner's Guide,Packt Publishing, and one of the authors of Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems (UnderstandingComplex Systems),Springer-Verlag. Prakash Jat is a system developer with nine years' experience in application development, mostly in Java/J2EE.

Currently, he is a developer with the SoapUI team. SoapUI is a widely-used testing tool for SOAP, REST, HTTP, and JMS services/requests. It has more than one million users. His interests lie in the latest technologies and things happening around APIs and API testing. Dennis Mnuskin is a highly driven professional with more than 15 years' software engineering experience. Over the span of his career, he has worked on a variety of products, from process control software and surveillance video recording and processing systems, to computer forensics and incident response tools.

The overarching focus in all of these was always building high-performance, mission-critical data acquisition and storage server backends. In his previous role, he was the software designer and technical project leader for an IP video recording platform. He was also a member of the Council of Architecture, where his responsibility involved setting long-term strategies for all software products developed by United Technologies Corporation's Climate, Controls, and Security Systems division. Currently, he is working at Carbon Black, a small (for now) startup company in the information security space, where he holds the position of Enterprise Server Engineering Lead. These days, his focus is split between two major areas. The first one is purely technical: remaining hands-on with the latest tools, technologies, and programming languages; Scala being his latest one.

The second area is in the realm of software team leadership and project management, where the goal of building a highly efficient, skilled, and motivated development team has its own unique set of challenges and rewards. He is a huge proponent of the Agile Software Craftsmanship and Lean Software Development movements and a strong advocate of practices such as continuous delivery, continuous process improvement, optimizing feedback loops, test-driven development, and eliminating waste. Dennis can be contacted via e-mail at dennis.mnuskin@gmail.com. Vaibhav Sehgal is a passionate software engineer who has contributed to the development of a wide array of software applications ranging from mobile apps to enterprise web applications. www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more You might want to visit www.PacktPub.com for support files and downloads related to your book. Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF and ePub files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.PacktPub.com and as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy.

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Table of Contents Table of Contents[ ii ]Table of Contents[ iii ] Preface Getting Started with Review Board is a book about the code review workflow in Review Board along with its administration aspect. It describes how to create a review request, perform a code review, and close the review request after incorporating the review comments in Review Board. It also covers the administration of Review Board, which includes installation, upgradation, and maintenance. It also talks about other tools such as post-review, which is also a part of the Review Board distribution.