Lotus notes coding standards? Sure have some

It has been my experience that a lot of Domino shops want to enable some sort of coding standards, but they do not know where to start creating them. Also there are not any good examples that I have found available.

Over the years I have come up with a template I use when implementing coding standards in my organization. You can get them here.

This document is a good example of what you can do to create such a document. Use it as you see fit. If you do use it drop me a line and let me know how it worked for you. As always I will answer any questions you may have.

Happy Tax Day my American Friends

John

Great resource for Developers and Administrators alike

Many times I run into people who are looking for good practices on setting up their Domino environment, and how to setup and document their application lifecycle.

Well my employer Teamstudio has created a Lotus Domino/Notes set of policy guides to assist with this.

They are product/vendor neutral and are freely downloadable here.

They cover Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, and Production.

Requirements phase:
* Request Management (REQ 10)
* Requirements Gathering (REQ 20)
* Requirements Alignment (REQ 30)
* Requirements Prioritization (REQ 40)

Design phase:
* Design Specification (DES 10)
* Test Planning (DES 20)
* Design Authorization (DES 30)
* Design Implementation (DES 40)

Development phase:
* Coding Practices (DEV 10)
* Source Code Management (DEV 20)
* Version Management (DEV 30)
* Unit Testing (DEV 40)

Test phase:
* Application Testing (TES 10)
* User Acceptance Testing (TES 20)

Production phase:
* Application Delivery (PRO 10)
* Security Management (PRO 20)
* User Management (PRO 30)
* Application Management and Monitoring (PRO 40)
* Data Management (PRO 50)
* Agent Management (PRO 60)
* Infrastructure Management (PRO 70)
* Domino Upgrades (PRO 80)

Look them over and get them. You will not be sorry.