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Salesforce Sales Cloud – An Implementation Handbook

By : Kerry Townsend
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Salesforce Sales Cloud – An Implementation Handbook

By: Kerry Townsend

Overview of this book

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a system rich in functionality, addressing many sales business challenges such as sales productivity, forecast visibility, and sales enablement. However, unlocking the full value of the system and getting maximum returns pose a challenge, especially if you’re new to the technology. This implementation handbook goes beyond mere configuration to ensure a successful implementation journey. From laying the groundwork for your project to engaging stakeholders with sales-specific business insights, this book equips you with the knowledge you need to plan and execute. As you progress, you’ll learn how to design a robust data model to support the sales and lead generation process, followed by crafting an intuitive user experience to drive productivity. You’ll then explore crucial post-building aspects such as testing, training, and releasing functionality. Finally, you’ll discover how the solutions’ capability can be expanded by adding and integrating other tools to address typical sales use cases. By the end of this book, you’ll have grasped how to leverage Sales Cloud to solve sales challenges and have gained the confidence to design and implement solutions successfully with the help of real-world use cases.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1:Building the Fundamentals
7
Part 2: Preparing to Release
13
Part 3: Beyond the Fundamentals

Developing a testing approach

Testing is the third stage of the Salesforce ALM. In this section, we’ll review the planning that is required to set up your testing approach. In Chapter 8, Executing Testing, we’ll expand on the content in the section and look at the specifics of the functional testing phases that we’ll introduce in this section. We’ll also consider the practical aspects of testing. We’ll start with a foundational understanding of why testing is important.

Why is testing important?

Testing is part of any quality assurance process, which aims to prevent defects and errors in software solutions. Testing confirms that the functionality that’s built delivers the requirements specified and will be an important part of your implementation delivery. This ensures that the solution delivers on stakeholders’ expectations and that it can be trusted. A solution that has errors and defects will quickly be mistrusted and abandoned...