Building and Testing Your Initial Release

In this chapter, we will cover how to build and test your Salesforce solution for initial release. We will go through what your solution consists of under the hood, the available Salesforce development models, and sandboxes. Then we’ll describe the agile team roles, the value of agile ceremonies, and how to effectively manage your development process. We’ll cover the governance mechanisms you can, and should, consider putting in place to steer your Salesforce project and the changes that may occur along the way. We’ll describe the various types of development phase testing you should be familiar with. Finally, we’ll go through the steps to create your data migration plan.

You will learn about the Salesforce development life cycle and how to organize an agile team consisting of both internal and external members, how to facilitate agile ceremonies, and how to govern the delivery of your Salesforce project. You...