How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

shreeharshan0678 — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 04:29:45 GMT

Thank you very much for your help.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Stewart Burchell — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:50:54 GMT

The Design approach follows on from the following pieces of knowledge and philosophy:

Appian design objects are exported as XML files, bundled in a zip file (an Appian patch)
There is no Designer access to the Applications that you can create in Appian (i.e. you cannot see an Appian application as a record type)
it's all about "risk". So let each Application lead determine what is an acceptable "risk" for each attribute for object type

The Design approach:

implement a mechanism to "register" an Appian Application as a record in the tool
capture some global standards at the Application level
implement a framework that allows you to define tests against the different Appian object types
implement a framework that allows you:
- to examine each XML object, introspect into it in order to extract an attribute
- run a "test" against the extracted attribute
- record the result of that test
present the results of any "Patch Analysis" as a set of drillable charts, with the aim of directing the analyst to the areas that need attention

Hope this helps

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

shreeharshan0678 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:16:51 GMT

what's your approach(Design) for building that tool.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Stewart Burchell — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:56:49 GMT

AQuAMan? I hope so...I built it!

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Richard Michaelis — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:25:00 GMT

interesting. do you have experience with that?

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

shreeharshan0678 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:08:44 GMT

Can we use this in community edition?

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Stewart Burchell — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:04:09 GMT

community.appian.com/.../aquaman

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

shreeharshan0678 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:44:34 GMT

Ya, I want to build my own tool to analyze application package.

Don't want to access the core elements of the platform.

Just simple custom code review tool.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Richard Michaelis — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:39:35 GMT

coding standarts like? I feels like you try to automate the job of a lead programmer/architect.

The maximum i can recommend is downloading a package of an application and writing your own tool, which can analyze this. But this is still not a really perfect approach in my mind.

Besides that, you try to get access to core elements of the platform, which is not possible to get.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

shreeharshan0678 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:35:24 GMT

I have to add/modify few coding standards according to my requirements.

RE: How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

Richard Michaelis — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:32:57 GMT

what are you missing at appian health check that you need an alternative?