Getting Ready to Release an OSC Provider

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Applies to: Office 2007 | Outlook 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010

This section suggests tests you can do before you release your Microsoft Outlook Social Connector (OSC) provider. You can start referring to the topics in this section and carry out some of these tests during your development and testing phases, but you should have completed these tests by the time you release. These tests verify the basic functionality of your implementation of the OSC provider interfaces with respect to the capabilities you specify for the OSC provider. You should determine whether other tests are necessary for features specific to your provider.

In This Section

  • Testing Deployment
    Describes scenarios you should test for around installing and uninstalling an OSC provider.

  • Testing Capabilities, Authentication, and Configuration
    Describes tests for getting capabilities, and scenarios around configuring an account and authenticating a user for a social network.

  • Testing Following and Stop-Following Persons
    Describes scenarios to test the OSC provider’s ability to add a person as a friend, or to remove a friend from the social network.

  • Testing Friends
    Describes tests and scenarios to verify that the OSC provider appropriately returns data of friends and non-friends, where applicable, depending on the synchronization mode that the provider supports.

  • Testing Activities
    Describes tests and scenarios to verify that the OSC provider appropriately returns activities of friends and non-friends, where applicable, depending on the synchronization mode that the provider supports.

Reference

Outlook Social Connector Provider Reference

Welcome to the Outlook Social Connector 1.1 Provider ReferenceOSC Sample Provider and TemplatesOSC Typical Calling SequencesDeveloping a Provider with the OSC XML SchemaDebugging a ProviderDeploying a Provider