Selecting which Reviews to Run
When you are familiar with the different types of reviews, you may find that some reviews are more useful than others at different stages of reviews. You can select specific reviews in the Code Critic Settings dialog shown below.
Figure 2 - Code Critic Settings dialog
The Code Critic Settings dialog groups reviews into the categories shown in the following table.
Category | Explanation |
Inheritance | including public/private inconsistencies and class extensions of base classes |
Missing | including missing method comments and missing dependent method |
References | including references to globals and references outside the prerequisite chain |
Style | including code that could be cascaded and poorly named methods |
System | including methods that send system messages and methods that reimplement system methods |
Unused | including unused pool dictionaries and unused state variables |
Table 3 — Review groupings.
To select specific reviews:
1. In the Code Critic Options dialog, select Settings..., or from the Transcript, select Tool Settings > Review....
2. Select a category in the left list.
The list on the right shows a group of check boxes representing each review in that category.
3. Do one of the following:
Desired result | Action |
enable all reviews in a category | click All |
disable all reviews in a category | click None |
enable or disable specific reviews | click individual check boxes |
reset to their default values all reviews in all | |
categories | click Reset All |
Table 4 - Enabling reviews
4. Click OK to accept the selected reviews or Cancel to abort the selection.
Last modified date: 05/19/2020