What are the challenges involved while performing Salesforce testing?

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What are the challenges involved while performing Salesforce testing?

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Hey Brett,

While performing the Salesforce testing, we need to be aware of certain challenges that are involved in it. To name a few:

  1. The Classic and Lightning platforms of Salesforce have different technologies behind them and hence the testing approaches vary accordingly.

  2. Automation tests for the Lightning component are not supported by Selenium currently, so custom frameworks are to be used for test automation

  3. It is also not possible to directly debug JavaScript code in the Lightning component, as it is obfuscated.

You can go through the following blog to deep dive into it:

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Salesforce is one of the most impactful platforms that have redefined the business industry. Especially, when cloud offers all the capability to manage CRM and other business operations, integrating Salesforce into business is vital for the success.

Since deployment is the only concern that decides the productivity and throughput on the operations, here are the most significant challenges that we as a salesforce testing company have experienced over the time:

Navigating through frames

To execute against dynamic content

To handle tables

Frequent and complex updates.

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