Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

In this chapter, we will continue looking at other Salesforce-specific knowledge areas required to pass the CTA review board. This is the sixth domain out of seven. We will go through the required knowledge and preparations for this domain and then complete a hands-on exercise using a mini-hypothetical scenario.

In the previous chapters, we covered several domains that contain knowledge required to develop a secure and scalable enterprise solution using the Salesforce platform. In this chapter, we will go through the considerations, capabilities, concepts, techniques, and tools required to set up an enterprise development environment.

Enterprises want to ensure they are making the most out of their Salesforce investment. This can't be achieved without the right level of governance, which supports and guides development activities throughout the program. Project/program governance should ensure the developed solution...