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Salesforce test automation is essentially the process of automating the testing of your Salesforce CRM to eliminate repetitive, error-prone manual testing activities. Salesforce Test Automation – How Can You Get the Best Out of Salesforce for Your Business

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Opkey is a Salesforce test automation platform with zero code test builder and test process orchestrator for end to end testing.

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What Benefits Can Salesforce Add to Your Testing Strategy?

What Benefits Can Salesforce Add to Your Testing Strategy?

Salesforce is used widely today for customer management and marketing purposes. Each deployment is different due to customization options and this is what makes testing so essential. There are many ways to test Salesforce and automated Salesforce testing makes the overall testing process speedier. You need to test for security weaknesses, do load and stress testing, test that you can deploy new Salesforce code efficiently and much more. User acceptance testing is the final stage before you can release the code to production. With all the types of testing, there are many benefits to your organization. Increase Test Coverage and Reduce Risks  Salesforce is the first cloud-based CRM system in the world. Its purpose is to help you to market, sell, service, analyze, and connect with your clients in an affordable and easy way. Many Salesforce features can be customized to suit your company's needs. A challenge of testing is checking the customized code. Salesforce is built on a development language known as APEX, which offers built-in test cases. Developers can do tests such as unit, system, UAT, production, and regression testing. There are two types of testing: manual and automated. Manual testing is testing using traditional methods, whereas automation involves using a platform like Selenium to automate the testing process. For large businesses, manual testing is just not feasible and they need Salesforce test automation if they want to improve the speed and quality of their testing. Compared to Salesforce, manual testing which is a time-consuming process and is very costly, Salesforce automation testing reduces the time and possible errors which can occur when testing manually. Build the Most Reliable Software Deployments Salesforce testing helps to ensure that you build the most reliable software deployments possible. You can verify that processes perform as intended within Salesforce and between Salesforce and other applications and systems. With automation, it is possible to run more tests in a shorter time and this enhances the value of Salesforce to your business.  Traditionally, deployments were time-consuming and prone to errors as teams had to rely on manual tools. Automation has allowed developers to boost their deployment success rates quite dramatically. With increased test coverage, developers can efficiently run test cases that need repeated execution, check the functionality of various time-based events and verify that business requirements are being met.  Identify Problems or Failures Early with Salesforce Testing By combining various different tests, developers can identify failures or problems early on in the development process. By testing early and often, they can catch problems while they are still easy to rectify. Far fewer bugs or errors are found in releases due to continual testing early in the development process. By identifying problems early on and fixing them, it means being able to deploy new work at any time without causing critical issues in production or breaking existing functionality. Deployment is more robust and causes fewer future risks. This also means shorter turnaround times which can save you money and free up resources for work on other important projects. Reduce the Risk of Data Leaks One of the major advantages of using Salesforce is the quality and quantity of information it retrieves. You can look at every individual account, task, event, contact and opportunity tied to a lead before approaching prospective customers. The downside is that Salesforce deployment stores a great deal of sensitive information. The very fact that it is so flexible and customizable can make it open to attack. Writing custom code, changing configurations or adding integrations can make it vulnerable.  Authorization bypass, SOQL injection and stored cross-site scripting are common risks to data when using Salesforce. A data leak could be very damaging to your business and destroy your reputation. This is why proper testing is so important. With proper testing that picks up vulnerabilities, you are less likely to suffer a data breach.  Improve Customer Experience with Salesforce Test Results Businesses today compete on the basis of customer experience, which means you need robust business processes to enable your sales and marketing efforts. Salesforce offers the practices, systems and technologies you need to manage customer communication and data. It can help you ensure customers have the best possible experience when interacting with your business.   Deploying Salesforce and testing it within the business ecosystem is critical if you want to improve customer experience. Only with robust testing can you ensure that you are deploying Salesforce in the most effective way to improve it so you can retain customers for sustained business growth.  Help Developers Identify Areas for Improvement Developers involved from the beginning in testing can quickly learn the ins and outs of Salesforce and identify areas for improvement from test results. This can result in better custom features and integrations to help connect all the applications you use for your business into Salesforce. With better integrations, your overall productivity improves. Validating and testing custom code in advance of release ensures its quality and means less time goes for resolving bugs and critical errors.  Early involvement of developers means they know what to expect when the next update rolls out. And they can pick up bugs and issues more easily, especially on custom app builds. Then, they can easily switch between work streams and incorporate feedback from stakeholders, pursuing an iterative strategy that offers continual improvements for end-users. Read the full article

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To understand the CRT, we will use our own app CloudFulcrum extensions for Copado. CloudFulcrum Extensions for Copado (CFX). Implementing Salesforce Test Automation With Copado Robotic Testing (CRT).

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Modernize Your Testing Strategy to Accelerate Digital Transformation for Next-Gen ERPs

by Sohaib Zaidi

August 24, 2021

“ERP systems are largely inflexible, expensive to upgrade, and poorly suited to modern digital businesses, we’ll now witness a new era of operations technology i.e. digital operations platform” – Forrester

With customers’ expectations sky-rocketing, enterprises are facing continuous pressure to embrace the cloud to cater to continuously changing market requirements to remain successful. Legacy systems are no longer considered a viable solution since they are inflexible and no longer adequately map modern workflows. Its high time that enterprises should embrace modern and more flexible alternatives to legacy ERP systems i.e. Digital Operations Platform (DOP).

DOP can be adapted to unique business needs, grows flexibly with an enterprise, and thus offers support in successfully scaling business activities. Regardless of whether you’re in B2C, B2B, wholesale, or manufacturing, a DOP can be used to exploit entirely new revenue potential. In other words, the DOP is Agile, Adaptive, and AI-Based.

Undoubtedly, DOPs have the potential to take your business to the next higher level. However, the million-dollar question is “How can you ensure that your DOP is always ready to deliver the functionality and business process execution that your company needs?”

The answer to the above question is “Testing”.

In this blog, we’ll discuss why a “new age testing strategy” is required to accelerate digital transformation and what should be included in this Testing Strategy.

Why DOPs require new age testing strategy?

According to a recently published report by Forrester, “Enterprises shouldn’t cut corners on testing the DOP during the implementation process and before going live. Investing the time and resources upfront will prevent a go-live horror story.”

Enterprises cannot lose focus on testing since inadequate testing can lead to software failures that can cause irrecoverable damage to your business. In the past also, software failures have wreaked havoc at banks, airlines, and the NHS, doing billions of dollars of damage and devastating disruption.

One of the most popular software glitches is Citi Bank’s $900 million misfires that happened during the switch from one software to another.

To support the agility of DOPs, enterprises need to think beyond traditional testing methods. Gone are the days when enterprises rely on a manual testing approach to validate the applications. It is no longer feasible to rely on manual testing to cater to the needs of Agile & DevOps. Enterprises that are looking to embrace DOPs need to afford new approaches to test a new ecosystem of highly interconnected, APIs and cloud-driven applications.

The New Age Testing Strategy in the age of Digital Transformation should support

Continuous DevOps Testing

Without continuous testing, DevOps could be like a one-legged horse in a marathon race. Traditional testing cannot keep pace with a typical modern delivery environment. If critical bugs are discovered after all development is completed, rework, redesign, and rethinking of strategy could adversely impact time to market. By introducing continuous testing in development, enterprises can reduce the time and effort involved in the code review process while providing developers and testers with more visibility into the overall development process.

Acceleration through Automation

Automating tests is vital to achieving continuous testing. With Agile and DevOps models on top of the testing curve, automation testing can help in fixing issues quickly that may slow down the development and deployment stages of the product lifecycle. Testing of new codes continuously will ensure timely feedback about the bugs and issues that will be fixed early in the cycle. Test automation will offer 360-degree quality assurance across horizontals and verticals and unparalleled testing scalability across multiple technology ecosystems.  

Emerging Technologies like AI/ML

The use of the latest technologies like AI and ML can make testing smarter and more efficient. With AI/ML-based test automation, QA teams can easily analyze security issues and identify test coverage gaps to deliver better codes faster. Furthermore, AI/ML can be used for self-healing abilities, enabling test automation platforms to automatically identify changes to test scripts and autonomously fix the issues, making test script maintenance effortless.

Omnichannel Assurance

A new-age testing strategy should focus on optimizing functional testing across channels. In today’s digitally-enabled world, you never know whether your customer is using tablets, phablets, ultra-books, or which mobile device/ browser/ Operating system. You need to design a test strategy with a view of all the channels and real user behavior.

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