Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce is ideal solution for businesses that rely on Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, and customer service operations.
In today’s competitive business environment, companies rely heavily on customer relationship management software like Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, and customer service. However, this creates a new challenge for businesses, namely, how to ensure the quality of their Salesforce environment. Salesforce is a highly-customizable platform with a wide range of features and integrations, making testing a complicated and time-consuming process. Fortunately, Tricentis Test Automation (TTA) for Salesforce offers a comprehensive solution to this challenge.
Tricentis Test Automation is the latest development in model-based testing, exclusively designed for enterprise applications. This cutting-edge solution enables organizations to carry out comprehensive testing of end-to-end business processes and complex applications. The next-generation solution now provides a cloud-based collaborative platform that enables teams to ensure the quality of their integrated systems. From functional UI to API/microservices testing, the user-friendly SaaS solution enables anyone, regardless of coding or prior test automation experience, to swiftly assemble automated tests at scale.
Test Automation for Salesforce streamlines your testing process in the Salesforce environment through custom pre-made steps, making it simpler for developers, administrators, and business testers to create test cases. The pre-made steps are designed using the familiar Salesforce terminology such as “contact” and “opportunity,” which allows for an effortless mapping of test cases in the language used daily in Salesforce. With Test Automation for Salesforce, professionals have an all-inclusive testing solution that is specifically tailored for those working in highly-customized Salesforce environments. The features include:
- Fast test case creation through pre-made Salesforce steps
- Efficient and easy test automation to enhance testing efficiency
- A recorder for test creation without coding
- Reports and dashboards for managing and accessing test results.
Key Features of Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce
Key features of Tricentis Test Automation include:
- Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce is independent of the version of Salesforce you are using. Whether you are using Salesforce or any of its apps, you can be confident that our solution will work for you and help you test, scale, and release faster than with other generic testing tools.
- TTA for Salesforce is “context aware” and comes with pre-built steps and a recorder that makes it easy to create test cases based on your Salesforce environment. Test Automation for Salesforce enables you and your team to design and oversee test cases, no matter your surroundings or expertise, through its intuitive recorder or test builder.
- With full platform coverage, you can perform end-to-end testing on Salesforce and even third-party apps.
- Creating stable tests is fast and flexible with Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce. You can author, configure, and customize API tests with ease, even if you don’t have any experience with tools like Selenium.
- The point-and-click recorder allows even basic users to create powerful test cases.
- Parallel, cloud executions eliminate the need for extra licenses or managing testing grids.
- Intuitive reporting gives you easy-to-read dashboards to review test results and locate problems quickly.
- The simplified login feature verifies your login state and ensures that the test is in the desired state before proceeding with additional steps.
- The AI-powered locators are designed to adjust and improve over time, keeping your tests stable and reducing the need for updates. Unlike other testing tools, you won’t need to spend hours or days fixing tests when static locators break.
- With TestOps, you can efficiently manage your tests and team, control changes to tests, and get valuable insights from tests. Scale your testing process efficiently with Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce.
- Effortless and Expansive Test Generation and Implementation for Teams of All Abilities to Enhance the Quality of Upgrades, Apps, and Customizations.
Advantages of using TTA for automating Salesforce
- 1) Optimized for Salesforce Lightning: The continually changing dynamic elements in Salesforce Lightning make creating test cases a challenging and time-consuming task when using script-based automation tools like Selenium. To address this issue, TTA for Salesforce offers a solution to automatically manage Salesforce Lightning components and secures dynamic elements to ensure your test cases remain effective in the future.
- 2) Dynamic Page Management with Self-Healing Technology: The AI-powered locators embedded in TTA for Salesforce are capable of identifying both default and custom objects, making test automation easier. TTA for Salesforce can automatically handle dynamic tables and switch between active tabs, eliminating the need for time-consuming rework caused by unreliable testing tools.
- 3) Prepared for DevOps: TTA for Salesforce supports in-sprint automation with a low-code or no-code approach and includes version control, branching, and merging capabilities, allowing you to keep up with the speed of DevOps. It even support syncing with platforms like GitHub.
- 4) Customizable Testing with Coding: Due to its dynamic nature, Salesforce can outpace other testing tools. However, the ability of TTA for Salesforce to add custom coded steps in Apex or JavaScript gives you the flexibility to thoroughly test your scenarios from start to finish.
Benefits achieved by automating using TTA for Salesforce:
- 1) Speeds Up Your Salesforce Deployments: Boost Your Salesforce Progress with an AI-powered, Code-Free Test Automation Platform Built for Agile and DevOps.
- 2) Achieve 90% Automation and Cut Costs with Automated Testing: Relinquish expensive and error-prone manual testing, and embrace a code-free Salesforce automation solution that grows quickly and is easy to reuse through Salesforce updates.
- 3) Reduce Risk by 85% and Ensure Software Quality: Protect your business operations with risk-focused test automation that covers end-to-end processes both inside and outside your Salesforce environment
- 4) Efficient Test Creation: Reduce the Time Spent on Salesforce Test Case Creation. The Salesforce Scan feature can create an automation model of your entire Salesforce org in just 60 seconds, saving you hundreds of hours on test creation and maintenance. The model captures all of the fields, buttons, and other elements on the screen and presents them in an organized manner for easy test case use.
- 5) Codeless Test Automation for Salesforce: Eliminate the Need for Business User Involvement in Manual Testing. Business users are often pulled away from their primary duties to participate in Salesforce testing, leading to disruptive delays and dependence on their availability. Tricentis’ codeless, user-friendly platform makes Salesforce test automation accessible to business users, enabling rapid scaling of automation and reducing the burden of manual testing.
- 6) Data Validation: Ensuring data integrity and catching data errors as early as possible is a major challenge for Salesforce customers. Whether using Tableau, Snowflake, or any other data warehousing or visualization tools, Tricentis automates data testing to validate data integrity faster, more thoroughly, and with greater reliability than manual ETL testing and report verification.
How to automate Salesforce using TTA
To automate Salesforce using Tricentis Test Automation, follow these steps:
- 1) Scan your Salesforce environment: Use the Tricentis Salesforce Scan feature to create an automation model of your entire Salesforce org, which will serve as the foundation for your test cases.
- 2) Create test cases: Use the codeless test builder to create and manage test cases. Tricentis provides pre-built steps and actions based on your Salesforce environment, making it easy to create tests quickly.
- 3) Automate your tests: With the codeless AI-driven platform, you can quickly and easily automate your tests, without having to write any code. This makes it accessible to business users and enables rapid scaling of automation.
- 4) Validate your data: Tricentis automates data testing to validate data integrity faster, more rigorously, and more reliably than manual ETL testing and report verification.
- 5) Execute tests: Run your tests to validate your Salesforce environment and ensure that your applications and customizations are working as expected.
- 6) Monitor results: Use Tricentis’ intuitive reporting dashboards to quickly review test results and locate any problems.
- 7) Improve tests: Use AI-powered locators to keep your tests stable and minimize updates, ensuring that your tests remain reliable over time.
With Tricentis Test Automation, you can achieve high automation rates, reduce costs associated with manual testing, and improve the quality of your Salesforce upgrades, applications, and customizations.
Best Practices
Best practices that can be followed while using Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce to ensure maximum efficiency and accuracy:
- 1) Start with a comprehensive automation strategy: Having a clear automation strategy in place will help you determine the right approach and set realistic expectations for automation.
- 2) Focus on end-to-end workflows: Automating end-to-end workflows will give you a better understanding of how the system works and how different processes interact with one another.
- 3) Automate early and often: Automating tests early in the development cycle will help catch bugs and problems sooner and will reduce the risk of production errors.
- 4) Leverage reusable automation components: By using reusable automation components, you can reduce the time and effort needed to create and maintain tests.
- 5) Automate data-driven testing: Automating data-driven testing will help you validate the accuracy of your data and ensure that it’s being used correctly.
- 6) Monitor test performance: Regularly monitoring the performance of your tests will help you identify and address any issues that may arise.
- 7) Collaborate with your team: Collaborating with your team, including developers, business users, and stakeholders, can help you identify the right testing approach and will ensure that everyone is on the same page.
- 8) Regularly review and update your automation strategy: Regularly reviewing and updating your automation strategy will help you stay up to date with new developments and will ensure that your testing approach remains relevant and effective.
TechForce Services is a professional services organization that provides end-to-end solutions for automating Salesforce using Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce. They work with their clients to understand their unique needs and requirements, and then implement the best practices for test automation, leveraging the Tricentis platform.
TechForce Services offers a range of services to help clients automate their Salesforce testing, including consulting, implementation, customization, and support. We provide guidance on test strategy, help set up and configure the Tricentis platform, and work with clients to build, execute, and maintain automated tests. We, also offer ongoing support and training to ensure that clients are able to continuously improve their test automation processes and get the most out of the Tricentis platform.
TechForce Services has a team of experts with deep expertise in Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce and a track record of delivering successful test automation projects for clients. They understand the challenges and complexities of testing Salesforce, and can help clients overcome them to achieve faster and more efficient release cycles.
