Application Lifecycle Management Resource Center

Andrew Woodward explains the fundamentals of writing unit tests for SharePoint solutions and customizations, and makes the case for adopting a test-driven approach to development.

Andrew Woodward discusses advanced concepts, tools, and techniques (including the Typemock Isolator AAA API) to help you write useful unit tests that work with the SharePoint object model.

The sample implementation in the SharePoint Guidance contains an architecture that supports unit testing. In the Unit Testing section of the guidance, learn how to use mock objects to test your application code.

Explore a sample unit testing framework that relies on mock objects. Alternative unit testing and type mocking frameworks and their advantages and disadvantages are also listed.

The SharePoint Dispose Checker tool is available as a free download. It inspects your assemblies for coding practices that cause memory leaks because of improper handling and disposal of SharePoint objects.

Learn best practices to follow when using Windows SharePoint Services objects, to avoid retaining objects in memory in the Microsoft .NET Framework.

The Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 includes command-line builds, which can make it easier for you to automate your builds.

This blog entry demonstrates how you can use SharePoint Server 2007 document libraries, with versioning turned on, to store old versions of your pages, and to roll back your changes whenever necessary.

The STSADMExtractFiles tool enables you to extract .aspx files from a SharePoint Server 2007 content database to your file system. You can then save these files to a source code control system of your choosing.

Learn to reconcile differences between artifact development and assembly development by combining components into a single version control repository, such as Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server.

Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles.

Read about the real-world design, construction, and deployment of a custom SharePoint Server 2007 application to a mid-market enterprise customer using Team Foundation Server as an ALM platform.