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DevOps for Salesforce

By : Priyanka Dive, Nagraj Gornalli
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DevOps for Salesforce

By: Priyanka Dive, Nagraj Gornalli

Overview of this book

Salesforce is one of the top CRM tools used these days, and with its immense functionalities and features, it eases the functioning of an enterprise in various areas of sales, marketing, and finance, among others. Deploying Salesforce applications is a tricky event, and it can get quite taxing for admins and consultants. This book addresses all the problems that you might encounter while trying to deploy your applications and shows you how to resort to DevOps to take these challenges head on. Beginning with an overview of the development and delivery process of a Salesforce app, DevOps for Salesforce covers various types of sandboxing and helps you understand when to choose which type. You will then see how different it is to deploy with Salesforce as compared to deploying with another app. You will learn how to leverage a migration tool and automate deployment using the latest and most popular tools in the ecosystem. This book explores topics such as version control and DevOps techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and testing. Finally, the book will conclude by showing you how to track bugs in your application changes using monitoring tools and how to quantify your productivity and ROI. By the end of the book, you will have acquired skills to create, test, and effectively deploy your applications by leveraging the features of DevOps.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing Qualitia


Qualitia is a scriptless testing tool. Qualitia is a functional test automation platform that provides us with a way to automate testing without scripting. Qualitia integrates with Jenkins as well. Qualitia is based on Selenium, in that it doesn't require you to write any scripts. After executing test cases in sandbox, Qualitia presents the results for the test cases in HTML format so that they are readable by the end user. We can host these HTML files on a file server and developers and testers will be able to access them using web browser.

Qualitia provides integration with Jenkins. We can execute automated test cases after deploying to the UAT sandbox. Also, we will be able to schedule our automated tests once per day in our pre-production or staging sandbox.

Running test cases with Qualitia

To run test cases with Qualitia, we need to integrate it with Jenkins. Qualitia's job will be executed on the Windows server, so if we don't have Jenkins on the Windows server, then...