NEWS FROM OUR PARTNER THE EXCHANGE PRODLY SPRING 2022 Salesforce recently released its new DevOps Center. effective, but there is more for you to consider. According to Mike Gerholdt, the Senior Director of Before your admin starts using the DevOps Center, Salesforce Admin Evangelism at Salesforce, the they need an effective environment management DevOps Center “will not only deliver a modern and strategy to go along with your sandbox seeding robust experience for declarative developers and strategy. Without an effective sandbox seeding admins but also allow for collaboration between strategy, it can be difficult to get value out of the declarative and programmatic developers DevOps Center. throughout the DevOps process.” Here are some tips from AppExchange partner This is great news for your Salesforce admin as the Prodly about what’s needed in an effective sandbox DevOps Center will make release testing more seeding strategy. Considerations for Your Sandbox Seeding Strategy: Identify a standard set of records that will serve as your Ensure that all your development orgs are in sync as your uniform data. At a minimum, you should have at least 20 testing progresses to avoid duplicated efforts. While the accounts, contacts, opportunities, and so on for testing. It DevOps Center allows for a more collaborative effort in is important to have different record types in the mix for your DevOps process, there may be limitations on how a your development and testing. work item can move from the ending production cycle back into earlier stages of testing. It’s important to make Determine how your test data will be populated into sure that any changes or updates that are —made — each development org at the start of each project. Some regardless of where you are in your testing — processes — questions to consider in this process include: won’t cause any issues as they move through the various testing stages. • Will Data Loader be sufficient or do you need to look at other tools? • Is it okay to export data from Salesforce to Need more support on how to prepare for CSVs to seed the data? using the DevOps Center? Prodly AppOp’s • Is there someone skilled in VLOOKUPs to Environment Management solution helps maintain the relationships between records? customers adopt DevOps Center faster by • Do you want to automate the data seeding automating seeding and syncing as part of process? an overall environment management • Should seeding be a closely controlled strategy. process, or should it be available to everyone on the team? • How will you accommodate a project that requires new or additional records that don’t exist in the uniform test data? Learn more about Prodly on AppExchange. 27