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Salesforce Continuous Integration
What is it? In essence CI is an aggressive build strategy requiring the isolated work of project developers to be integrated immediately following code commits to a shared source-code control system....
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Salesforce Ant Scripts
This brief post illustrates how Ant scripts can be used in a continuous integration scenario, i.e. where metadata is held in a source code control (SCC) repository such as Subversion. In a CI scenario...
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Salesforce Ant Scripts – Post Retrieve Modification
If your deployment process involves manual modification of the metadata files between retrieve and deploy steps, it’s time to consider extending your knowledge of Ant. This is critical for Continuous...
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Salesforce Ant Scripts – Selenium
The Salesforce metadata API is an extremely powerful tool, when combined with Ant, Jenkins etc. for build automation. There is however a number of configuration items that simply can’t be retrieved and...
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External Id Deployment Error
On occasion when deploying components between orgs you may encounter a database-level category of deployment error, bubbling up from the underlying Oracle RDBMS with limited information to support any...
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Salesforce Source Control and Release Process
This post outlines my preferred approach to managing parallel developments on the Salesforce platform in what I refer to as the Converged Programme Model. I readily acknowledge that there’s a multitude...
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Salesforce DX
This post provides a practioner’s introduction to Salesforce DX (Developer Experience) a new software development lifecycle paradigm for Salesforce. Please note at the time of writing (Spring ’17 –...
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Salesforce Development Architecture
This diagram provides a high-level overview of Salesforce Development Architecture concepts and platform capabilities. This is the fourth in a five-part Salesforce Architecture reference series...
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