The determination of a Galois group is an important question in computational algebraic number theory. One approach is based on the inspection of resolvents. This article reports on this method and on the performance of the current magma [W. Bosma, J. Cannon and C. Playoust, The Magma algebra system. I. The user language, J. Symbolic Comput., 24 (1997) 235--265]. implementation.