Benefits of Salesforce CI/CD
What is CI/CD for Salesforce?
CI/CD for Salesforce refers to continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery, key practices in modern software development. Continuous integration (CI) involves merging code changes and testing them regularly to maintain system stability. This allows developers to integrate updates without disrupting functionality. Continuous deployment/delivery (CD) automates code releases, speeding up updates and reducing errors.
Our powerful tool, Xetfer, can be integrated as part of a Salesforce continuous deployment solution. Xetfer streamlines CI/CD processes, with a particular focus on simplifying data migration tasks, helping to ensure thorough testing and enhance system stability, so that developers can deliver high-quality software with minimal effort.
Salesforce CI/CD pipeline
Source Control Management (SCM)
Organize and manage code changes through version control systems.
Continuous Integration (CI)
Automate code integration, ensuring regular testing and error-free updates.
Artifact Management
Store and manage built artifacts for deployment consistency.
Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD)
Automate the deployment process, ensuring fast and reliable updates.
Monitoring and Feedback
Track performance, gather feedback, and ensure optimal system health.
Salesforce continuous delivery with Xetfer
Learn how Xetfer, our Salesforce CI/CD solution, enables continuous delivery, facilitates CI/CD best practices and improves both your processes and results:
Compliance management
Data masking and transformation features help ensure development and testing environments comply with privacy regulations and data protection standards.
Data backup
Automated granular data backups protect against data loss, ensuring quick recovery and continuity throughout the development process.
Environment management
On-demand sandbox data refreshes create production-like environments, ensuring accurate testing and development in realistic conditions.
Features of our Salesforce CI/CD tool
Data masking
Anonymize sensitive data to ensure privacy and compliance.
Large data set replication
Efficiently replicate extensive data sets for testing and development.
Reuse seed templates
Utilize pre-set templates to streamline data migration processes.
Granular backups
Perform detailed backups to safeguard critical data.
Continuously update data
Keep data current to reflect real-world scenarios accurately.
Safeguard data security
Implement robust measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality.
Why Xetfer?
Compliance is safeguarded
Developers can seed Sandbox data using data masking to ensure sensitive data is anonymised.
More realistic testing data
Testers have reliable data for conducting multiple tests, such as hypothetical IF scenarios, stress and capacity load testing.
On-demand data uploads
Data uploads on-demand, not only in the standard 30 day sandbox refresh cycle, can save you time and costs.
Disaster recovery supported
Generating hypothetical datasets must preserve data relationships to accurately reflect real-world scenarios, such as growth or market expansion.
Reuse templates for efficiency
Create many different reusable templates for sandbox seeding, used repeatedly to streamlining your pipeline.
Accelerate multi-scenario testing
Different test groups can use their specific data subsets to run through multiple test scenarios more quickly.
FAQ
What is a CI/CD pipeline?
A CI/CD pipeline is a process that automates the integration (CI) and delivery (CD) of code changes, ensuring faster development and deployment. It involves stages like code integration, automated testing, and deployment to production, streamlining software development while reducing errors. In a Salesforce CI/CD pipeline, changes to metadata and configurations are integrated, tested, and deployed efficiently. Xetfer supports this process by providing realistic sandbox datasets, ensuring that automated tests run on accurate, secure data, enhancing the reliability of the pipeline.
How does your tool integrate with Salesforce?
Xetfer, our Salesforce continuous delivery solution, easily integrates with your CI/CD pipelines using our SFDX plugin to automate initiating migration jobs. The tool works within the Salesforce ecosystem, maintaining data relationships while masking sensitive information to ensure secure and realistic datasets for testing, training, and demonstrations. By aligning with Salesforce’s data.
What are the different pricing plans available?
There are a range of different pricing tiers available for Xetfer. These options differ depending on factors such as whether Xetfer is hosted and managed by you or by us, and how many records of data can be handled per month. For full details, please visit the pricing section of our website.
Is there a free trial available?
Yes, you can apply for a free trial of our Xetfer tool and use the trial to evaluate Xetfer’s capabilities for yourself. This 30-day free trial does not require you to provide credit card details – just install Xetfer, contact us for a free trial license and get started. For more information, just visit the free trial section of our website.
What support options are available?
All of our package options include support to help you get up and running with Xetfer and resolve any issues you may encounter. In special cases in which the customer has more extensive support needs, we can also provide support as a managed service, subject to a tailored agreement.
Do you offer training or onboarding assistance?
As part of the support provided in all of our Xetfer packages, we provide a detailed user guide and are always available to answer any questions if customers need clarification on certain features..
Get started with Xetfer, our Salesforce CI/CD solution
Download the Xetfer package today or get in touch to request a demo, discuss pricing and implementation, and more. You can also find price information, including the cost per license, on the Xetfer AppExchange app listing.