Salesforce Development Lifecycle: Detailed Phases

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Salesforce Development Lifecycle Detailed Phases
With great power comes great responsibility. We
all know this. Or at least anyone who has ever
heard of Spiderman knows these words. Salesforce
as a tool is kind of the all-powerful one in this
context. But anyone who knows Salesforce
development also fits the bill. The Salesforce
development lifecycle is multi-layered not only
does it require investment, but rather, a
commitment from the entire organization to see
the development through. The development team
will, of course, commit to their role in it, but
it is crucial that the organization, who is the
client, does so too.
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• SFDC development life cycle begins with
  discovery, understanding why a client requires
• Salesforce, and their exact needs. There are
  several complex phases that follow, all
  culminating in project delivery and staff
  training. Lets take a look at all the phases of
  the Salesforce development lifecycle
• Phases of Salesforce application development
  lifecycle
• Generally, development projects are completed in
  phases, with every phase having a particular
  goal to achieve. Salesforce Development Lifecycle
  goes through 6 such phases.
• Let us better understand each phase of the
  Salesforce Development Lifecycle
• Discovery Phase
• This is the primary phase of Salesforce
  development. In this phase, the requirements of
  the department are assembled, analyzed, and
  decided upon. Later on, these are shared with
  development teams. Now, several factors are
  involved in the discovery phase, like the
  objectives/goals of projects, critical needs,
  development intricacies, automation needs,
  reporting, gaps in the previous implementation,
  APIs, tools, and development approaches.
• Source Control Set-up
• Source control provides you with a tool to help
  track changes occurring in files. A release
  manager would kick off a development project and
  create repositories and branches. Lets see what
  these two components are
• Repository
• It is sort of like a vessel for version control.
  Usually used to store away files, and it can
  track changes in files in real time. A
  repository is the master storage of files, from
  which many branches, which contain new elements
  in development, come out. You can oversee
  changes, review the work of other developers,
  and clear up discord by creating different
  repositories.

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• Branches
• Branches give the developers an autonomous
  working environment to work on new features away
  from other development work. Branches allow for
  parallel development and provide the developers
  with control changes when products are released
  for testing. It is favorable to have a separate
  Git repository for different projects. You can
  merge all the data later on with the main
  application. The responsibility falls to the
  release manager to assign tasks according to the
  intellect of the developer.
• When you create a version control, you can set up
  a single source of code, manage conflicts,
  reduce risks, facilitate deployment risks,
  clarify reduction, and release at a higher rate.
• Development Phase
• Development operations are executed in sandbox
  environments. Every developer who works in such
  an environment has a copy of the main production
  application and the essential configuration
  info. Developers use these separate environments
  to write code, modifications, and testing. They
  may connect with their sandbox using Force.com
  and transmit metadata to IDE. After all the
  required changes are made and tested, they are
  transferred to the Git repository. If a project
  requires multiple people working on the same
  code, check the conflicts before you put the code
  in the repository.
• Testing Phase
• After the development phase comes the testing
  phase, teams are gathered to conduct
  top-to-bottom testing sessions where code is
  moved from the primary repository to the
  sandbox. Quality Analysts conduct different
  testing processes in Salesforce application
  development projects, like unit testing,
  performance testing, regression testing, visual
  testing, integration/API testing, load testing,
  etc.
• Most of all, Salesforce application development
  partners use agile methodology so that any
  structural changes can be taken care of at this
  stage. Although, should serious modifications
  arise, you have to go back to the drawing board
  (initial development stage).

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• Acceptance Testing
• After the stages mentioned above are completed,
  we come to the acceptance testing phase. User
  acceptance tests are conducted and carried out by
  end-users in combination with the development
  team. In this phase, a release manager creates
  sandboxes, which the end user then uses for
  testing. Once the testing is completed and
  approved, the product is ready to be released.
  However, if there are changes suggested at this
  stage, you can take the entire thing back to the
  initial development phase.
• Product Release
• After undergoing different testing procedures,
  the product is tested a final time for
  performance in a sandbox. Here, all the
  configurations, functionalities, and app data are
  tested a last time. Here we have to ensure that
  the solution passes through the service level
  agreements before being set up in production.
• How will CRMJetty help you with the same?
• We have been honing our Salesforce development
  skills for over 16 years now and have built a
  strong portfolio of clients who have made it in
  the industry with us. You can count on our
  expertise with the software, as well as our
  understanding of your unique needs.
• Contact us today to learn more about everything
  we offer in terms of Salesforce development and
  get started on your path to success!
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