Salesforce testing is an essential part of the administration and development process. Therefore, testing approaches must be used by all Salesforce experts in their areas of expertise. You must test your enhancement design in your environment against its original criteria, whether you are an architect constructing a complex integration, marketing sending out a drip campaign, or an admin rolling out simple modifications to a website layout. This will reveal any possible defects, errors, or opportunities for improvement. Salesforce testing is essential for a successful project launch. Due to the number of integrated and connected features within Salesforce, you may not have considered things during a build crop up during automated functional testing.
Guide to improve your testing practices
Ensure end-user adoption and buy-in before going live
Nothing is more frustrating than spending time and money on a project only to have users refuse to use it. Designing for and including your stakeholders in your development and testing process is one method to avoid this problem. Paying close attention to the demands of your end-users, and even involving them as testers, demonstrates to them that your design is intended to make their life easier. Allowing end-users to express their opinions and suggestions builds trust in your product. Stakeholder participation in UAT is an essential diplomatic step. As a result, focusing your change management efforts on influential voices in departments affected by the new rollout will generate goodwill and positive anticipation.
Resolve problems early
In Salesforce functional testing, deployments are an integral part, and if code doesn’t receive test coverage in the changeset, you must fix it. So, when you work on your project, you don’t want to discover that work you finished weeks before doesn’t work as it should. This is avoided by constantly deploying and testing your development, allowing you to ensure that it is working correctly throughout the build. After deploying to the appropriate sandbox, you can trust your users to conduct UAT testing. Risk-based testing is a critical component of any testing strategy. Minimize testing efforts by determining what needs to be tested based on risk levels and avoid testing extraneous items to save resources and time. This is accomplished through the ForeSight solution’s impact analysis, which can pinpoint exactly where things will break in your code or declarative objects, allowing you to add these particular, predetermined risks to your testing schedule.
Plan your release roadmap using feedback from UAT
Avoiding “Mission Creep” is one of the most challenging aspects of Salesforce Automation development. When stakeholders pile new requirements on top of your design and deployment, Mission Creep occurs, obscuring the initial project and perhaps causing delays. Continuous Testing enables you to stop Mission Creep in its tracks while incorporating user feedback into a Phase II or future release. In addition, combining user feedback into your Release Roadmap will demonstrate that you’re aware of your company’s demands and committed to continual improvement while keeping your deployment on track.
Streamline your testing process with testing tools
Implementing a test environment
An integrated testing environment is essential in tests involving complex systems such as eCommerce applications. As part of Salesforce, you can integrate many other systems, including payment providers, fulfillment providers, and delivery partners. These systems need to be integrated to enable real-time integration testing to test business-critical functions satisfactorily. Integration testing properly needs to be done at the right time during development to be cost-effective. In contrast, if defects are discovered not until later in the production process, it will be much more costly to fix them.
Enhance future feature releases
Establishing robust test criteria and processes can ensure that your development team follows best practices. It will also train your testing participants to deliver consistent, valuable comments. Adopting cloud testing platforms such as ACCELQ would be an excellent choice to get the best result. ACCELQ automates API and web testing without the need to write a single line of code. ACCELQ offers an automated testing platform for critical aspects of the testing lifecycle, including test generation, planning, test design, and execution. In addition, it explains what to expect from both end-users and design teams. Salesforce’s development teams can work more efficiently when they use testing and development techniques such as Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, and Code Reviews.
Salesforce Testing Challenges
The Salesforce testing process is complicated because manual testing is costly and error-prone. Salesforce Automation testing is also difficult. The Sales UI is highly customizable, making interacting with its elements significantly more difficult. These properties also change infrequently, which can lead to broken tests. When a test suite evolves, or test cases become more complex, pure record and replay tools fail. In addition to their steep learning curve, pure script-based tools have a large amount of overhead for testing maintenance.
Final Thoughts
With these tips and best practices coupled with Salesforce tools, functional and UAT testing can be greatly improved, and your projects will be more successful. You must conduct appropriate UAT and functional testing in your Salesforce deployments to do frictionless rollouts. This ensures that your users are bought in, that issues are eliminated early, and that testing runs effectively in your future roadmaps.
