STSADM VS POWERSHELL SOLUTION DEPLOYMENT

PowerShell Deployments

So everyone is familar with STSADM command prompt and we have all learned to love it. So now we have PowerShell, so to get you started please have a look at the following links which are great resources to get you started for deploying a "WSP" Package using powershell.

• Patrick Boom
• Corey Roth

There are many more resources available out there - but those are the two I decided to use. You can see the basic commands for deployment below:

Add Solution

ADD-SPSOLUTION [SOLUTION LOCATION]

Deploy Solution

INSTALL-SPSOLUTION -IDENTITY [SOLUTION NAME] -GACDEPLOYMENT -WEBAPPLICATION [URL]

You can also check out a few MSDN articles:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms442691(v=office.14).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607803.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607552.aspx

Hope these articles help you out :-)

SharePoint 2010 Test Cases including Test Matrix

In the last few months we were tasked to create test cases including a test matrix for what was developed in our SharePoint 2010 solution. So I started out on my Google Search trying to find a generic test document which I can reuse across my site as I did not want to write any test cases for the OTB functionality that SharePoint offers.

I found this link to provide good guidance in formulating a test plan as well as a test matrix document.

There are various other sources available on the Internet, but I have found the one mentioned above most useful for my specific requirements.

I hope this helps :-)