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Creative User Names for Test/Dev Accounts

I need creative help thinking of clever and creative User names to make up for Test accounts....aaaannd go!
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How do I test my team site before I share it?

I might not be asking this correctly as I am still very new at SharePoint. I am trying to figure out if it is possible to view my team site as if I was a visitor? This way I can see exactly what they ...
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SPfx gulp-serve command not launching the browser page in local host

I have created HelloWorld web part from this tutorial. The command yo @microsoft/sharepoint and gulp trust-dev-cert executed successfully. After that, I executed gulp serve command which shows below ...
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SharePoint workflows testing environment

Is there any way, how I can set up a proper testing environment for workflows in SharePoint 2013 (created in SharePoint Designer)? And I mean real testing environment that I can easily deploy to a ...
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Are there any specific / difference in testing strategies and best practices that needs to be followed for SharePoint 2013?

Are there any specific / difference in testing strategies and best practices that needs to be followed for SharePoint 2013 when compared to sites developed in .net/Java?
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Migration of Outlook Exchange to O365

My client is moving from Outlook exchange to O365. As a part of functional testing, what should i test. I am not involved in migration testing and it is out of scope for me.
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Sharepoint Online site migration for testing

i am using SharePoint Online site. I want to replicate my live site to other testing site. i tried to save it as template but it did not allowed me. while searching i found out " if site has ...
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List of SharePoint CU user-centered Testcases

Does anybody have a list of testcases to use for CUs testing? I'm searching for testcases for common user actions like Document Upload Document Download Follow functions List Attachement Newsfeed ...
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Subsetting production data towards virtual lab

We are currently thinking of setting up a virtual lab, which is essentially an isolated virtual network with an exact copy of all production components. By using specific port mappings one can access ...
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Easy way to create testing environment of SharePoint 2010 Application

I want to create a test environment for SharePoint 2010 Application. The steps I will follow are. Backup development Application content DB. Create a new site in Testing environment and replace its ...
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Is SharePoint throttling my load test?

I have a Visual Studio 2015 load test that I am running against SharePoint 2013. Once the test increases to around 100 users, page response times increase dramatically. Once the load test hits 1000 ...
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SharePoint Sanity Testing In New Domain

We're completing a domain migration and trying to compile a set of sanity checks/tests to validate the move for various applications including SharePoint. There is not requirement yet to do full ...
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How to do regression testing of code which relies heavily on SP... classes?

I've inherited a SharePoint project and I'm at the step when I will start adding tests for regression testing. The fact that practically every method in the project relies on SPSite and similar SP... ...
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How can I be logged in in parallel with different user profiles for testing, what users with certain permissions can see in a SharePoint site?

When defining permissions in a SharePoint 2013 site or library I'd often wish to easily test what a users with (only) those permissions can see on this site. So I think I'll have to create some test ...
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Testing Site & Go Live feature?

For SharePoint website, is there a feature that, developer can try all the settings in the Testing Site, and after the trials have been confirmed, the developer can click a Go Live button, then the ...
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Search Result Web part affect on Content Search Web part ,both webpart on same page

Currently on single page having both Search Result Web part and Content Search Web part, if enter any keyword in Search Result Web part it display result but at the same time Content Search Web also ...
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What is an efficient setup for designing and testing O365 web parts?

I have just been immersed into the deep end of sharepoint development; and then some: developing web parts for O365 sharepoint. Right now I am using a 'deploy and see' development model, but I would ...
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What would I need to set up a local test service/server?

We would like to set up a locally hosted test server that we could develop some custom workflows and code with to eventually push up to the customer's server. What would be the best software and set ...
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SharePoint 2013/office 365 Test Automation

I am currently working on SharePoint 2013/Office 365 based intranet portal and we are looking for test automation for our solution. Basically i want to get answers to following questions: Is Coded UI ...
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Is a Standalone SharePoint 2010 Server Good Enough as a Test Environment for Production SharePoint Farm

I have inherited SharePoint 2010 at work and would like to test some features we are not utilizing. I would like a testing environment for SP but being limited on resources, I want to set this up on ...
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After a server upgrade, what types of health checks do you perform

We are currently trying to validate a deployment but want to make sure we've checked all the appropriate things. Other than testing new functionality, what steps to do you take to make sure an update ...
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Is it possible to selectively retract during F5-debug re-deployment?

Is there anyway I can select certain project features to remain deployed instead of being overwritten each time I F5-debug-deploy? ...other than creating multiple Solutions. If not, are there ...
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Static Code analysis and Testing

We want to implement static code analysis (like SPCop / SPCAF / StyleCop) and unit testing (what's the easiest way to mock SharePoint objects? Are there alternatives to Microsoft Fakes?) into our ...
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How do I integration test an SharePoint Online App?

It is my understanding that if I want to do integration testing of Apps for SPO I first and foremost need a tenant to do the testing on. The problem is, how do I run the tests? Ideally I want to use a ...
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When separate test server is needed for SharePoint 2010

We have used SP 2010 Foundation edition for a year, so I am quite new to SharePoint. Mainly it is used for transferring registries from Excel's to SharePoint lists in order to add workflows, and ...
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Testing branded SharePoint 2010 solutions

We are implementing an extensively branded SP2010 site. As part of this effort, we need to be able to confirm that our branding does not break any out of the box (OOTB) SharePoint functionality. ...
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SharePoint 2013 Performance Testing

I'm using Visual Studio 2012 to create a number of web performance tests for a customer. One of the tests they would like to perform is the opening of documents within the Microsoft Office Client apps....
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What equipment is needed for test SharePoint environment?

I am not really experienced in SharePoint beyond managing site content. Right now we only have a live SharePoint environment with two servers, one for SQL, and the other server for everything else. ...
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Sharepoint & JMeter

Im currently testing performance of sharepoint pages. As a tool to choose JMeter. Wondered write scenarios for testing it. Found that this is done through a proxy server, built-in JMEter. Adding proxy ...
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How to simulate content and usage

I need to test some webparts in an Sharepoint site that has more than a few users, with several documents and usage data (creations, accesses, modifications). Is there a way to simulate that? Or some ...
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SharePoint Release Management Testing and Roll back

I'm putting together a release process for our SharePoint 2007 environment. We have admins and power users who have to make out of the box changes to sites via the browser. Only one admin who can make ...
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How to perform stress test against sharepoint site using threads

I want to analyze the performance (hence its weak points) of a sharepoint site doing stress test activity. What is needed to be done is call some methods exposed via web service that do the following ...
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Techniques for load testing and baselining performance on a SharePoint site?

So far I have considered upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in order to get access to the testing tools. I also looked at the Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010, but I'm not sure if ...
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Using object model in automated unit test

I'm setting up a project in which I want to include a unit test project for testing. I'm testing this with the new TFS Online preview (dev 11), so I want to use a continuous build to test each check-...
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Setting up a test environment

We're currently in the process of rethinking our development setup. This (of course) includes a test environment in which our customers can test our software. Now for SharePoint, theres a bit of an ...
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SharePoint 2010 solution install testing (Hosting???)

We've built a SharePoint 2010 auditing solution and while it works correctly here and at our SINGLE (albeit complex) beta site; I would like to test the solution install on more systems. I could buy ...
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How to test lookup?

When creating a workflow, is there any way to test the look up values? For instance, I have a 4-level look up which finds the manager of a user who is entered on the form. I'd like to be able to see ...
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Please suggest a practice to deploy a sharepoint site collection from test to production server

This is the current scenario: Sharepoint 2010 on MachineA with SQL Server. Site collection SCa on web app WAa. Now I need to "deploy" my site collection on MachineB. What are the suggested ways ...
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How can you populate a SharePoint 2010 farm with lots of test sites & data?

I need to fill up 2.4 TB of space. I need to generate thousands of personal sites and hundreds of team sites. I have the scripts to populate an existing site, but I've ran into problems. How can ...
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How to test content databases without triggering alerts and workflows in test environment

Let's consider the following: You want to restore and attach SP Content Database in the test farm to test for folllowing scenario(s): Scenario A - To test if SharePoint 2007 database can be upgraded ...
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Unit Testing / Performance Testing approaches for SharePoint Projects

Its sort of an open ended question but can anybody share the experiences, approaches, tools and infrastructure to implement following in their SharePoint Projects: Unit Testing Performance Testing ...
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Writing test cases for MOSS 2007 WCM

Does somebody have a test case template for WCM solutions? How should the test case be categorised? Is it based on page layouts?
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Anyone doing or done any A/B or multivariate testing with SharePoint 2007/2010 [closed]

How easy or hard is it to spit out two pages running concurrently (or more pages if we do multivariate tests)? We're using SP 2010. We'd need a way to easily: generate these pages modify these ...
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Testing SharePoint 2010 Beta

I have a Virtual Machine with MOSS 2007 (Enterprise), VS2008 and SQL 2005. I want to start exploring 2010. I need to know what I need to get started. Can I download 2010 beta from the Microsoft ...
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Copy the whole production environment to staging

There is the following WSS solution deployment scenario: Copy the whole production WSS to staging Deploy new solution/update to staging Run automated tests & human tests on staging Deploy new ...
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What techniques do you use to debug/test your SharePoint Timer Jobs?

I have developed a number of SharePoint Timer Jobs and they are always a bit more painful to debug and test than other areas of SharePoint. I was wondering what tools/techniques other people use to ...
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Performance testing SharePoint 2010

I'm eagerly awaiting the SharePoint 2010 Administrators toolkit to assist with performance testing. We'd like to setup multiple configurations of hardware/topology to determine the best fit. I'd ...
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Penetration testing tool for SharePoint

Does anybody know any good penetration testing tools for SharePoint?
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How are you doing automated testing?

One area that I have always found a challenge is being able to get my automated builds (in whatever guise, MSBuild Nant etc) to deploy the created solution (WSP) to a remote machine, install and test ...