Upsource offers reviewing capabilities for a variety of processes and development teams
June 27, 2019
Upsource offers reviewing capabilities for a variety of processes and development teams
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Upsource
We use Upsource to manage reviews across several projects worked on by 5 devs. Our process involves automatic monitoring of our git repos and integration to our IDE, Rider and Webstorm. Code reviews are an integral part of our software lifecycle and Upsource has been the best tool we've found to fully support review features with minimal overhead and productivity impact.
- Automatically watch git repositories
- Track all commits in a branch in a single commit
- Integrates with build server to report build status of specific commits when looking at reviews/commits
- Integrates with JetBrains IDEs
- Ability for reviewers to add comments inline and require comments to be resolved before approval
- Built in diff viewer, both stacked and side-by-side
- Creating and closing reviews isn't as quick as it could be. You must create a review, assign reviewers, approve and close. I wish there would be a quick review-approve-close for a commit where the change is simple and doesn't require multiple review iterations.
- Web based interface can be clunky, especially when looking at big diffs side-by-side
- JetBrains IDE integration is somehow less convenient than going using it in browser.
- Increased our code base quality
- Reduced the number of bugs found after deployment (bugs are found in review and fixed before deploy)
- Improved knowledge sharing
Compared to the other tools we evaluated, Upsource was the only tool that allowed distinct reviews without needing explicit pull requests while still being able to go in-depth when required. The diff viewer is serviceable and better than the alternatives, as well, especially the side-by-side viewer.