Understanding the path to production
The path to production is the strategy for how new features and bug fixes are delivered to your live production Salesforce org. There are different scenarios that require different strategies, including:
- New Salesforce implementations
- Smaller enhancement projects
- Bug fixes
In this chapter, we will cover the new Salesforce implementation scenario.
Business use case
You are the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets. XYZ Widgets has been using a legacy system and has decided to move to Salesforce. You are tasked with setting up the environment strategy.
Setting up the path to production
As a best practice, you will set up the following strategy for your implementation. This strategy includes different types of sandboxes and how to use each one in the process of getting code and functionality to production:
Figure 20.1: The path to production
- The developer sandboxes are used for building...