Book Image

Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer
Book Image

Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer

Overview of this book

Salesforce is the world's leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their constituents and partners. This book will give you a comprehensive introduction to managing sales, marketing, customer relationships, and overall administration for your organization. You'll learn how to configure and use Salesforce for maximum efficiency and return on investment This book will teach you how to create activities, manage leads, manage users, set up security, customize your UX, work with third-party applications, build flows, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns and much more. Packed with real-world business use cases, this Salesforce book will show you how to analyze your business information accurately to make productive decisions for your business. As you advance, you'll learn how to build various reports and dashboards in Salesforce to derive valuable business insights. Finally, you'll explore tools such as Salesforce Flows, approval processes, and assignment rules to achieve business process automation and set out on the path to becoming a successful Salesforce administrator By the end of the book, you will know how to manipulate Salesforce to achieve your business goals
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
21
Assessment
22
Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Understanding testing types

Now that we have a defined path to production, let’s look at the different types of testing. There are generally five types of testing that will be conducted:

  • Unit testing
  • System testing
  • UAT testing
  • Production testing
  • Regression testing

Unit testing

Unit tests verify whether a particular piece of code is working properly. This type of testing is done by developers as they build code. Salesforce requires 75% code coverage. Code coverage indicates how many executable lines of code in your classes and triggers have been exercised by test methods. This is important in that code can be developed in sandboxes and tested by users without unit tests. To push that code to production, the unit tests must be written and covered.

Not all implementations include code, and this type of testing is needed only when there is code being written.

System testing

This testing takes place in the SIT sandbox...