Please welcome Upsource 2018.2! The latest version of Upsource brings you a number of nice improvements to simplify the process of creating and updating reviews. There's more automation and a lot of it is enhanced, so you can focus on coding and reviewing code instead of performing admin tasks. There's also extra support for Java 9, and, of course the usual updates to the IntelliJ IDEA engi

It's been a month since we released Upsource 2017.1 and, of course, we are moving forward. Today, we would like to share our plans for the 2017.2 release which is planned for Q3 2017. Support for External Inspection Engines Upsource is renowned for having a built-in IntelliJ IDEA engine that we use, among other things, to show inspections in code. It’s also behind the Code Analysis Summary t

Hi everyone! We have some important news to share today. We have extended the list of available Upsource licensing options with a new 250-user pack. Previously, the next available option after 100-user pack was 500-user pack. The gap between these two options, both in terms of the price and the number of users, was too vast. It made it harder for some companies to adopt Upsource even if the

(This post was originally published on the JetBrains Company Blog on September 18, 2013) Last week at JetBrains Day we talked a little bit about Upsource, a new platform we have been working on. In this post, we’d like to give you a bit of a deeper dive into it. For the past year or more we have been working hard behind the scenes to modularize the IntelliJ platform. As it stands now, Intell

Code review like no other development practice relies on humans being efficient. And for most of us to achieve that, it's important to have our tasks well organized and our time well planned. Upsource takes care of a lot of things for you without any need to configure anything. For example, if you have a branch review, it'll automatically add new revisions to it. It'll promptly notify you abou

If you're using JIRA workflows and have code review as a part of it, you'll be pleased to find out that Upsource 2017.2 can apply issue transitions automatically. Let's say you have a JIRA workflow set up that looks something like this. We won't go into detail on how to configure a JIRA workflow - please refer to JIRA documentation. Now, if we look at the text version of it, we'll see w

In the latest Upsource release we have further extended the reach of JavaScript code intelligence by introducing support for npm and yarn package managers. Upsource will look into your package.json file(s) and install the required dependencies so that you can get more out of Go to declaration and Find usages actions. The downloaded dependencies are intelligently cached. Here's how y

The latest Upsource release brings Python code insight functionality to help developers understand new changes in a familiar manner and be more efficient when reviewing them. The code insight features in Upsource include server-side static code analysis and code-aware navigation. These features allow you to understand code better when browsing through it and perform code reviews more efficiently.

Upsource helps us make our mobile apps awesome My name is Radoslaw Holewa and I am a co-founder and CTO of Miquido, a mobile app development company that delivers successful business-driven mobile solutions to clients like Skyscanner, Aviva, HelloFresh, Nestle and many others. Today I will give you a quick overview of our code review process and the reasons it's crucial for Miquido development.

This guest post is brought to you by Zando.co.za engineering team. Our Team Zando.co.za is South Africa's largest online fashion retailer. We are part of the Africa Internet Group stable of companies. A little over a year ago, we implemented a "code review culture" in our team (although at the time we didn't realise it), to improve the way we develop and maintain our eCommerce platform. A

We've created a new screencast outlining some of the best practices that apply to performing code reviews, and how Upsource can help apply those best practices. In this blog post we've also transcribed the content, and have provided links to further information. https://www.youtube.com/embed/EjwD7Pi7J_0 (more…)

We've previously covered at What to Look for in Java 8 Code, now Java is moving faster than ever it's time to do an update and cover what to look for in Java 9 code. While Java 9 has even now been replaced with Java 10, and Java 11 in coming in September, these Java 9 features are, of course, available in Java 10 and 11. If your application is using any version later than Java 8 you may benefit fr

The last three posts on code review workflows show that there's more than one way to do a code review, and that the approach you take will depend upon what you want to achieve with your reviews and the type of team you're working with. In this post, we'll cover how Upsource aims to make your workflow, whatever it looks like, simpler by automating as much of it as possible. We'll show the types

In the last two posts we talked a bit about how effective those approaches are for the author to learn and improve, because those two approaches focus on getting the code correct. The Design Evolution approach additionally mentions the value of the whole team seeing the evolution of the code. This third approach for code reviews puts learning at the centre of the process — the purpose is not to