Content-Oriented Applications Architecture Guidance

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint applications. The guidance discusses architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging; design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, such as when to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information; how to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration; how to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments; how to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading and team-based intranet application development, among others.