Best Practices in Testing Force.com Application
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The document discusses best practices in testing force.com applications, emphasizing the need for effective test automation to handle increasing complexity and shorter development cycles. It highlights key challenges faced by QA organizations and outlines strategies for successful implementation of automated testing, including design, execution, and integration considerations. Additionally, the document promotes Emtec's expertise and services in this area, inviting readers to a complimentary automation readiness assessment and a networking event at Dreamforce '13.
Best Practices in Testing Force.com Application
- 1. Best Practices in Testing Force.com Applications October 3, 2013
- 2. Emtec Team Introductions Mike Carter, Salesforce.com Practice Lead Mike has over 15 years of experience in IT strategy, consulting, and technologyenabled business improvement across multiple industries, geographies, and organizations. Responsible for leading and developing Emtec’s Salesforce.com team. Mike’s expertise spans IT strategy, technology implementations, program and project management, business process improvement, and organizational design. Prior to joining Emtec, Mike was responsible for delivery and sales of professional services engagements in the East and Central regions for Salesforce.com. Having worked in the CRM space for 12 years, Mike has implemented SFDC for over 40 clients. Dan Olsen, Salesforce.com Practice Lead Excellence in delivery is Dan Olsen's singular focus and his responsibilities include managing the delivery of Salesforce.com projects for our clients in the Michigan region. In addition to his 15 year history developing and managing technology in the automotive sector, Dan has spent the last 9years working specifically in the field of Customer Relationship Management - including time with Model Metrics, now owned by Salesforce.com. Dan is an expert with the Force.com platform, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and system integrations. He has a strong record of translating complex business processes and requirements into CRM solutions that solve problems and delight clients. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 2
- 3. Emtec… ‘Big enough to do the work, small enough to care’ EMTEC THE COMPANY • Serving clients for over 46 years • 14 locations, including 8 development centers • Voted One of the Top 100 Places to Work by Crain’s Chicago in 2012 • Our consultants have an average of 14 years of experience. Nearly 45% have advanced certifications • 73% of our PMs, Architects & Consultants worked at Tier 1 consultancies in a previous life • $255M IT Services Provider • Regularly compete & win against larger IT service providers US Locations • Springfield, NJ (HQ) • Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • Dayton, OH • Fremont, CA • Jacksonville, FL • Herndon, VA • Minneapolis, MN • Oakbrook, IL • St. Louis, MO THE WORLD Global Offices • Toronto, Canada • Ottawa, Canada • Pune, India • Bangalore, India Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. • Emtec has completed more than 1,100 Package Application engagements, including: - • Over 1,000 full-time professionals EMTEC AROUND EMTEC SERVICES AT A GLANCE 200+ Oracle clients with more than 415 engagements - 206 EPM / Hyperion & OBIEE clients and 323 engagements - 186 Microsoft Dynamics and more than 255 projects • Emtec is a premier provider of SaaS and Emerging technologies market, including 51 Salesforce Clients with more than 75 engagements, Including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud • Emtec has performed more than 6.3M hours of application development and maintenance work ranging from Business Analysis to Product Development • Emtec has served more than 565 Infrastructure services clients where we have: - Deployed more than 1.85M servers, personal computers, tablets and mobile devices - Installed or provided more than 925 exabytes of storage (That’s a whole lot…) - Triaged more than 30,000 L1 support incidents - Implemented service management solutions for more than 125 clients 3
- 4. Agenda Need for Test Automation Test Automation Best Practices for Force.com Demo: So How Does it Look? Next Steps Q&A Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 4
- 5. Quality Assurance and Testing: Demands and Challenges • Companies spend over $50B on QA and the demand is growing • QA organizations are constantly under pressure to test more within shorter timeframes and a reduced budget. QA Organization Demands QA Organization Challenges • Scope Increasing • Typical QA Effort Planned – 25%-35% − Cross-browser compatibility – web, mobile-web • Whereas QA Effort Expended – 15%-20% − Regulatory compliance • Typical Automation Coverage – 55% − Threat Vulnerability • Less Time to Test • Typical Automation Effectiveness – 65% – Rapid application development • 45% of Automation projects stalled – Shorter product release cycles – Distributed development • 55% of Automation projects don’t achieve ROI • Increased Consequence of Defects • Effective utilization of QA resources – 70% Emtec’s QA Practice offerings are designed to help our clients address these challenges more effectively. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2012. 5
- 6. Force.com Application Development and Testing Landscape • Force.com applications are getting larger and more complex, with shorter development cycles – Drives need for a comprehensive test plan – As features are added, regression testing becomes key – Code coverage must be significant, not just meet the minimum code coverage requirement of 75% • Agile development methods are driving the need for rigorous testing –An ongoing regression test framework is essential to ensure that working functions are not inadvertently impaired during subsequent sprints –Building and executing an automated suite of regression tests enhances the ability to develop these applications rapidly and with high quality Today, we will share with you a way to test Force.com applications effectively and efficiently. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 6
- 7. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? • The trend in software Quality Assurance is to do more with less, with higher stakes • Force.com applications are becoming more complex • Agile development methodologies are driving shorter development cycles, with an emphasis on testing. • Automated testing is the logical solution to meet the challenge. 7
- 8. Best Practices in Building a Test Automation Suite • Tool Agnostic – Should be able to configure multiple environments ( dev, test, stage) for same test case execution – Plug and Play – Ability to work with different tools with minimal • Analytics impact on test coverage – Incorporate automated verification of results – Ability to reflect product status in • Business Aligned Automation – Provide trend analysis for individual features – Use case based testing – Compare execution results across multiple – Support reusability of scripts – assemble runs scenarios using atomic scripts – Provide Object-based automation (minimize • API testing impact of UI layout changes) – Somewhat neglected area in test automation • Create test scenarios on the fly – Key element in web development where support needs to be provided on various – Ability to use English statements (leveraging platforms. Behaviour Driven Design) to create test scenarios, empowering your business users to – APIs are mainly used for data transfer and create dynamic scenarios various key operations – Ability to verify each parameters and its variation in standalone manner • Keep configuration effort low – Browsers to be launched for execution – Data driven and parameterized (same script • Distributed can run for multiple data conditions without – Enable Configurable execution for need to modify scripts) unattended operation – across diverse data sources Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 8
- 9. Best Practices for Building Automated Regression Tests • Design Tests to Meet Organization Objectives: – Assess product quality objectives – Aligned with time-to-market product development objectives – Balance cost against resource constraints – Tailored to deliver realizable ROI • Will Involve: – Up front setup activities including: tools, standards and guidelines to drive consistency and auditability – Proof-of-concept / pilots, to validate alignment of direction – ABC analysis of test cases – not all test cases are amenable for automation – Leverage automation best practices, frameworks and assets (such as eSTAF) 9 Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013.
- 10. Additional Considerations for Force.com Applications • Need to ensure and demonstrate adequate Code Coverage (75%) – Insertion of Test Classes into custom code in sandbox environment – Creation of mock test classes for inbound web services (integration) – Add coverage for triggers and batch processes • Testing against a cloud environment – Security considerations (firewall) • Carefully design and sequence your test to avoid exceeding limits – Data limitations – API call/governor limits • Testing integrations from Force.com to external applications (cloud to cloud) – Example: Force.com calls to USPS address validation Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 10
- 11. Benefits of Automated Regression Testing Accelerated Automated Testing Business Goal Greater Test Coverage where its laborous to generate test data Frequent Test Execution On Demand Testing as part of continuous integration Cross Browser Functional testing Repeatable Test execution (across customers, environments, scenarios etc.) API regression testing using various protocols (SOAP, REST, etc.) Complete regression testing during specified batch window Avoid repeating prerequisite steps for executing complex scenarios Leverage existing automation, record & play tools Executing test scenarios across variety of data providers Customizable user defined integrated reporting Trend Analysis Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 11 Manual Testing
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- 14. Emtec’s Software Test Automation Framework Architecture Application Under Test (AUT) UI Business Layer WEB / WINFORMS / HEADLESS SOAP / REST DATASOURCES Business Adaptor eSTAF Core (SFDC Example) Application API OpportunityManager Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Business Process Workflow(s) Scenario N Business Process Workflow(s) AccountManager Configuration Framework Application Manager Skeleton Object Cache Base classes Utility Framework Data Driven Capabilities Account Utility Classes Session Manager Opportunity Execution & Reporting Engine Lead Contact Reporting Framework Result Trend Analysis eSTAF Team UAT Automation Team Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. API Framework UserManager Object Cache Business Process Workflow(s) R E U S E e S TA F D a s h b o a r d Test Scenarios MS SQL 14 Multi process Execution
- 15. Deployment Diagram and User Roles Involved Test Framework Team Deploy latest Binaries, Provide support to Automation team Execute test cases, generate reports, analyze and verify results, report issues as necessary QA team eSTAF Framework Binaries Insert test code, fix defects and retest Test Framework Server Development team Business Adapters & Test Cases Automation team Connect and Execute Test cases Develop new adapters and test cases, upload to server Connect and Execute Test cases Staging/UAT Server Development Server Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 15 QA Server
- 16. An Agile approach to test automation accelerates realization of benefits We can help you get started with the Inception Phase – stay tuned for the details! Inception Design Construction Test Runs and Analysis Ongoing Support Project Governance Understand Application Landscape Design Test Suite Management Features Evaluate Test Requirements Design Test Execution strategy Identify candidates for Automation Sprint Planning Deployment Automation Architecture Design Define Overall Approach and Plan Pilot/Proof Of Concept Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. Create Automation Roadmap Create & Prioritize Automation backlog Groom Stories Test Execution, Analysis & Bug reporting Business Adaptor / Test case design UAT Automation development Sprint 1,2,…n 16 Sprint Closure Revise Product Backlog considering Enhancements / Maintenance Needs
- 17. Next Steps Complimentary Automation Readiness Assessment Let us help you get started on the Inception Phase with an automation readiness assessment aimed at identifying ways to improve the quality of your Force.com Applications. Sign up for your Complimentary Assessment Today! For more information or to sign up today, contact Erica Archer at: erica.archer@emtecinc.com or 312-216-4911 Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. 17
- 18. Join us for Happy Hour at Dreamforce ‘13 Join us at Dreamforce ‘13 on November 20th at Annabelle’s Bar & Bistro for cocktails, food and a chance to connect with other conference attendees at this local favorite, conveniently located just steps away from The Moscone Center! Location: Annabelle’s Bar & Bistro Date: Wednesday, November 20 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. REQUEST A TICKET! Contact Erica Archer at: Erica.archer@emtecinc.com or 312-216-4911 Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2012. 18
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