Crucible is a collaborative code review

Code review

Code review is systematic examination of computer source code. It is intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving both the overall quality of software and the developers' skills...

 application by Australian software company Atlassian

Atlassian

Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers. On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.- Products :...

. Like other Atlassian products, Crucible is a Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

-based application primarily aimed at the enterprise

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

, and certain features that enable peer review of a codebase may be considered enterprise social software

Enterprise social software

Enterprise social software , comprises social software as used in "enterprise" contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication...

.

Crucible is particularly tailored to distributed teams

Telecommuting

Telecommuting or telework is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours. In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links...

, and facilitates asynchronous review and commenting on code. Crucible also integrates with popular source control tools, such as Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

 and Subversion. Crucible is not open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

, but customers are allowed to view and modify the code for their own use.

See also

• Confluence
  Confluence (software)
  Confluence is an enterprise wiki software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, Confluence is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution...
  
  
• Crowd
• Bamboo
  Bamboo (software)
  Bamboo is a continuous integration server from Atlassian, the makers of JIRA, Confluence and Crowd.Bamboo is free for philanthropic and open-source projects. Commercial organizations are charged based on the number of build agents needed...
  
  
• JIRA
  JIRA
  Jira may refer to:* JIRA, software-engineering package* Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis* Jira, also known as Zilla, fictional character* Jira * Jira...
  
  
• JIRA Studio
  Jira studio
  JIRA Studio is an integrated, hosted software development suite developed by Atlassian Software Systems. JIRA Studio includes Subversion for revision control, JIRA for issue tracking and bug tracking, Confluence for content management, GreenHopper for agile planning and management, Bamboo for...