An automated code review is a development feature that applies
a set of rules to a code base to validate compliance with best development
practices and software engineering guidelines. To get the maximum value from
code review, development leads can review all the rules in the Complete code
review and configure the code review by enabling and categorizing only the
rules important for the team.
There are several code reviews that are supplied with the code review
feature. In each code review, rules are grouped based on a particular aspect
of quality or severity. To configure code review, the development lead uses
the Complete code review because it contains a superset of all rule categories.
From the Complete code review, the team lead chooses a subset of rules to
configure the code review according to the team's needs, exports the configuration
and distributes it to all team members.
You perform the following tasks to configure code review:
- Exclude packages and classes from the Complete code review.
- Select the Complete code review.
- Configure code review rules.
- Select rule categories and rules for the Complete code review.
- Create a resource filter for a rule.
- Create a user-defined rule.
- Modify a user-defined rule.
- Import a rule configuration.
- Export a rule configuration.