Data Seeding Your Development Environments

In this chapter, we delve into the importance and process of populating your development environments with realistic data, which is crucial for accurate development and testing. We will also explore data masking as a fundamental technique to ensure sensitive data remains protected throughout this process.

We will cover the following main topics:

• The benefits of accurate data for development and testing: We will look at how data in our development environments brings realism, improved error detection, opportunities for performance tuning, and helps meet compliance and validation needs.
• Seeding data in your environments: In this section, we explore practical steps for getting test data into your Salesforce orgs – from data generation to import – and discuss how these processes can be automated while being mindful of complex data relationships.
• Protecting sensitive data with data masking: Finally, we ensure we...