Review Assistant is a lightweight peer code review tool. Being a powerful addition to Microsoft Visual Studio — Review Assistant makes it easy to implement peer code review and review code changes, and make comments. Peer code reviews are considered an industry best practice for an early detection of software defects, bugs, and discrepancies in code-writing style. The obvious advantages of this practice include: sharing expertise and knowledge transfer among participants, elaborating a common coding style, identifying defects early, lightweight code review, and employee training.