SharePoint Test

August 26, 2008

ChiefTech posted an interesting self-test here. I don’t want to spoil your fun so I will quote just one of the tongue-in-cheek questions. You know your SharePoint project is in trouble when…

You are focused on turning off features.

I enjoyed this post because it underscores some of my perceptions of SharePoint. I think it is an example of a content management system infected with Microsoft Word type bloat. For me, SharePoint is a system that looks like a great deal and it sure seems easy to set up, manage, and customize. But as one adds “sites” or becomes mired in the idiosyncrasies of performing minor graphic tweaks, SharePoint can be a termagant.

One happy quack to ChiefTech, a person who knows how to identify the SharePoint gotchas in a clever way.

Stephen Arnold, August 27, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, Microsoft, News, Technology

Comments

3 Responses to “SharePoint Test”

James Dellow on August 27th, 2008 5:23 pm

Thanks for the “quack”, but just to give credit where credit is due, the 7 Sign are actually from this article http://my.advisor.com/doc/18295?open&p=1&pid=ztdbms (which is linked from my post). However, you’re right – they are pretty tongue-in-cheek but make excellent points.
Stephen E. Arnold on August 28th, 2008 3:31 pm

James Dellow,

Thanks for the catch.

Stephen Arnold, August 28, 2008
Edwin Antony on September 17th, 2011 2:42 am

Hi,

Here is the blog contains Reusable sharepoint Test Scenarios

http://sharepointtesting.blogspot.com/

Might be this will be very usefull for those who are very new to sharepoint testing

for any more docs, doubts and for suggestions your mails are welcome to edwinraj.p@gmail.com

Regards,

Edwin Antony

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