Chapter 17: The Sandbox Model
Throughout this book, we have played with Salesforce platform features using a Developer Edition org, but you'll likely work as a Salesforce administrator or developer in a more complex context, where a production org contains all business data and current (and stable) platform customization, while all new changes or bug fixes will be done on separate environments to safely develop and test those new metadata changes (we defined the metadata concept in Chapter 1, A Brief Introduction to Salesforce, when describing the Salesforce platform architecture).
That's why it's fundamental that you learn all about sandboxes, a special kind of Salesforce org strictly related to your company/customer production org, where you can, as the name implies, play with platform features without harming anyone.
In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
What a sandbox is and what types are available
Managing sandboxes
How...