Leveraging early releases in customer sandboxes
Salesforce’s sandbox environments, combined with tools such as Push Upgrade, offer ISVs valuable opportunities to refine their AppExchange releases. Adopting early releases in customer sandboxes allows for a streamlined release process, ensuring your AppExchange products are of top quality and free from bugs. This strategy not only ensures the highest-quality releases but also gives customers ample time to familiarize themselves with updates before they go into production. Salesforce’s sandbox, push upgrades, and comprehensive release notes form an ideal framework for this.
An early release strategy means introducing your new AppExchange version in a controlled setting prior to the production release. The benefits include the following:
- Gathering valuable feedback: Customer sandboxes serve as platforms to gather firsthand feedback on your app’s enhancements
- Training customers: Before the official release...