Project Description

The Code Annotation Engine (CAE) is designed to help facilitate code reviews that are done by a team working on a software project. This need initially arose when it became very cumbersome to share and manage the results for software projects.

Features

As CAE has only begun, there is currently no code that is part of the final project. However, that following is a list of some of the plans for the first few versions of CAE. The various features will be updated depending on need and the availability of time.

• Provide annotation and markup to source code.
• Provide connectivity with a repository. Subversion will be supported first.
• Provide a versioning system for the annotations so they can be tracked with a specific version of the source code. This is necessary due to the fact that the source code will change outside of CAE.
• Link task annotations to a bug tracking database so that tasks from a code review can be provided directly from CAE and can then be tracked from that point forward. Initial support is expect for Bugzilla.

Development

Initially, CAE will be a standalone application, developed in C# (.NET 3.5). If it matures, it may be turned into a web application.

Currently, CAE is being worked on as part of a class project.