The Secret Weapon Behind Faster Salesforce Releases: DevOps Testing

Introduction

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, maintaining high-quality software releases is a critical challenge for Salesforce teams. As organizations grow and scale, so does the complexity of their Salesforce environments. Many teams rely on manual testing, inconsistent deployment practices, or disconnected tools, making it difficult to ensure that changes are secure, high-quality, and aligned with best practices.

These challenges are not new. For years, Salesforce teams have struggled to maintain code quality and security as their environments grow. With limited visibility into code changes, no automated quality checks, and high dependency on manual testing, teams often find themselves facing recurring bugs, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt.

Current Challenges:

Salesforce teams often face several challenges when managing deployments without a unified testing strategy, including:Manual Testing: Error-prone and time-consuming.

• Lack of Visibility: Difficult to track code quality across environments.

• Technical Debt Accumulation: Poor coding practices can build up over time.

• Security Risks: Unchecked changes can introduce vulnerabilities.

• Hyperautomation: The integration of AI, machine learning, and robotic process automation (RPA) to create fully automated workflows.

• AI-Powered Predictive Analytics: Businesses are using AI to anticipate customer behavior and optimize operations accordingly.

• Autonomous AI Systems: AI is evolving to handle complex decision-making with minimal human intervention.

Imagine a Salesforce team working on a new product release. Without automated testing, they rely on manual code reviews and basic tests. After deployment, critical bugs are discovered in production, impacting customers and requiring emergency fixes. This scenario is all too common without proper DevOps testing.

Introducing Salesforce DecOps Testing

To address the growing complexity and risk in modern Salesforce environments, Salesforce has launched DevOps Testing—a test management product built on top of DevOps Center to ensure all changes are thoroughly tested across every phase: pre-testing, testing, and post-testing.

But deploying a true end-to-end testing strategy requires more than just a tool—it requires best-in-class expertise at every layer of the process.

That’s why Salesforce selected a handful of strategic partners—including Copado, Tricentis, Provar, and Quality Clouds—to cover the full testing lifecycle. Quality Clouds was chosen to lead the critical pre-testing quality layer.

As the trusted partner for code, configuration, and platform-level quality assurance, Quality Clouds brings automated Quality Gates, real-time insights, and customizable rule sets that prevent issues from ever reaching the testing phase. We catch problems early—before they become bugs, outages, or rework.

This recognition reflects our deep commitment to the ecosystem. We’re proud to be an official Salesforce quality assurance partner, helping enterprise teams confidently scale with fewer surprises in production, smarter change control, and faster, safer delivery.

By seamlessly integrating with DevOps Testing, Quality Clouds strengthens the first line of defense in your pipeline, ensuring clean, compliant, and ready-to-test builds every time.

The integration is available at no additional cost, but requires an active Quality Clouds license.

👉🏼 Book a demo or request your trial license here 

Setting Up DevOps Testing with Quality Clouds

Getting started with DevOps Testing in your Salesforce organization is simple:

1. Activate DevOps Testing: Install DevOps Testing from the Salesforce AppExchange here.

2. Install the Quality Clouds DevOps Center App: To begin, make sure you have our DevOps Center App installed in your Salesforce Org. 👉🏼 Install here

3. Access DevOps Center
   
   

4. Add Quality Clouds as Test Provider:
   

   • Navigate to the Test Providers tab within DevOps Testing.
     
     

   • Click “New” and select Quality Clouds from the list of available test providers.
     
     

   • By adding Quality Clouds, DevOps Testing automatically synchronizes the information, making it ready for immediate use.
     
     

5. Configure Quality Gates: Customize your quality criteria—such as code standards, security rules, and best practices—directly within Quality Clouds. 👉🏼 View the documentation for Quality Gates for Salesforce

6. Run Automated Tests: As changes move through the pipeline, they will be automatically tested based on your defined quality gates in Quality Clouds.

    

By choosing Quality Clouds as your test provider, you get comprehensive quality checks including automated code analysis, security monitoring, and real-time dashboards—all seamlessly integrated into your DevOps workflow.

Results and Benefits by Role

• Developers: Reduced bugs by 40%, faster feedback.

• Admins: Simplified monitoring and compliance.

• Managers: Clear quality metrics and faster releases.

• Security Teams: Proactive security monitoring.

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