Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations

"Web sites that are based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 often include custom solutions. The ability to customize sites by adding custom solutions gives Office SharePoint Server 2007 power and flexibility. However, a poorly designed or implemented executable module that runs in a SharePoint farm can do harm even beyond the scope of the Web application for which it was intended. Poorly implemented custom solutions can introduce security or performance risks, increase the cost of support, complicate deployment, and reduce productivity.

Because the impact of installing custom solutions in a SharePoint server farm can be either positive or negative, we recommend that you to carefully evaluate all custom solutions before deploying them in your production environment. Among the areas to evaluate are the following:

• Was the solution developed, tested, and piloted consistently with the best practices described in Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and in white papers such as Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions?

Along with requiring that the solution be developed in accordance with general best practices, we recommend that you have developers submit a checklist to verify that their solutions have been coded and tested according to best practices.

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Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations