Salesforce development has been marked with certain challenges in the past such as difficulty in doing continuous integration, supporting the entire Salesforce org, automated testing, and keeping constant track of dependencies. In this context, you must know that Salesforce developer community is versatile and vibrant and has been managing to find perfect solutions despite these challenges. However, the good news is the introduction of the truly dynamic and versatile Salesforce DX. Here are a few ways how Salesforce DX would be successfully tackling DevOps issues.
Coming Up with New Developer Orgs Has Now Become Hassle-free with Scratch Orgs
Today it has become a lot easier and practically painless in creating orgs and then setting it up effectively thanks to the versatile Scratch org from Salesforce DX. Now the developers would have the liberty to work independently without getting in the way of each other’s code. Moreover, as it seems to be source control driven, you could effectively utilize the GitHub features for reviewing and effectively merging and also testing code.
Facilitates Source Driven Development
This is simply amazing. Till now it has been a real pain while taking the source code from the VCS (Version Control System) and then auto-deploying to the Salesforce. It necessitated a few manual steps such as coming up with a brand new Salesforce org, maintaining meticulously a script that could be crafting a package.xml straightaway from source code. Moreover, it was required to maintain ANT script for effective deployment of code. Today, numerous companies have successfully automated this process. Currently, Salesforce DX facilitates source driven development and supports automated enablement of certain specific features, as well as, org preferences. Browse through Flosum for amazing solutions.
Continuous Integration Eliminates Regression Bugs
Continuous Integration or CI is actually a development practice necessitating developers to initiate integrating code directly into a shared repository numerous times every day. Each entrée is verified meticulously with the help of an automated build that allows teams to examine and detect issues early.
Doing all this on the Salesforce platform has been pretty challenging earlier chiefly because skilled engineers were required who were conversant with APIs and the migration tools of force.com for creating this and maintaining it too. The ever-changing metadata would make things quite challenging with each and every release.
Fortunately, Salesforce DX is supposed to be CLI-oriented and so it would not be troublesome to set with your precise development environment. Salesforce DX enables continuous integration hence; it would be boosting the efficiency and productivity of your developers and eliminating regressions in your swift and rapid development.
Supports Automated Test Runs Meant for Lightning Components & Apex Unit Tests
Salesforce DX helps in automating unit tests. This would certainly boost quality and facilitate a much smoother and flawless deployment or application packaging. You have the liberty of configuring your CI to run automatically all tests for lightning components and apex unit tests.
Conclusion
Salesforce DX is a path-breaking step and would go a long way in easing development on the Salesforce platform. It encourages and boosts team development. The focus is strategically placed on team development because you could achieve a lot more if you operate as a robust team than as just an individual.
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