One of the key things when it comes to managing effective projects on the Salesforce platform is understanding sandboxes. It also helps to understand how the right environment management strategy can help you ensure your code and configuration have been built and tested with quality before it's deployed to your production environment.
Consequently, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Creating and using sandboxes
- Using different types of sandboxes
- Creating change sets
- Deploying change sets
With the help of these topics, you will be able to understand how to create sandboxes, as well as knowing which type of sandbox to create. You will also learn how to build and deploy change sets so that you can move your changes from a sandbox to another or move them to your production environment.