Copado Fundamentals – 1: Questions With Solutions
1 What Is Copado? Right Ans - Standard Salesforce Development Lifecycle*
2 What is Devops? Right Ans - DevOps is a combination of practices that
automate and enable greater effectiveness in the process of building and
running software. DevOps combines the technical practices of Continuous
Delivery with the business practices of lean management and lean product
development.
3 What are the main Challenges in Salesforce Development Lifecycle? Right
Ans - The first thing you encounter is that there's not a clear overview of the
whole process. You may have these questions
Where do changes happen?
Should I start in dev1, or can I implement my changes directly in production?
Which environment do I need to deploy first?
Is it UAT or Integration?
Who is going to approve my changes?
4 what are the limitations of the change sets? Right Ans - Change Sets
Limitations - Companies spend a lot of time building change sets. Here are
some of the limitations of change sets that you should know:
1.Change sets do not offer the capability to search components by name or
type. As a developer, you are forced to browse through multiple pages to find
the metadata items you want to select.
2.If you accidentally add a component, you cannot filter within your selections
to remove the component quickly.
3.Certain components are not available to be deployed using change sets, and
it's possible to move changes only across environments that are connected.
4.With change sets, all selected components come in a single list, so you can't
scope which modification is based on which request
5. Change sets do not enable continuous delivery, and automation of
deployments is not an easy task
5 What are the difficulties Keeping Environments in Sync? Right Ans -
Release teams struggle with sandbox syncing after deploying to higher
environments. For example, if a company uses a hotfix sandbox to develop and
push fixes to production, lower environments will show discrepancies
regarding the production environment. These differences can lead to
,deployment errors and a blocked pipeline. Even having multiple developer
environments requires users to keep those environments in sync.
6 What are the Problems arise if we refresh the sandboxes.? Right Ans - 1.
Metadata loss. All the work in progress in a sandbox will be overwritten after
the refresh.
2. Full sandboxes can only be refreshed once per month, therefore they can't
easily receive changes that were sent from a hotfix environment to
production.
3. Scrambled emails. Whenever a sandbox is refreshed, user email addresses
are modified in the sandbox so that production users don't receive
automatically generated email messages from the sandbox. Hence, users are
required to validate an email address change in order to be able to log in again
into the sandbox. 4.Data loss. Unless you're refreshing a full sandbox or a
partial copy, you will lose all data. Hence, you need to recreate the test data all
over again.
8 What happens If multiple Developers working on the same components?
Right Ans - "There is a major issue when multiple developers work in the
same environment and perform changes in the same components. As
mentioned in the Change Sets Limitations section, when you work with
change sets, you have no visibility on who has made what changes, and there
are no tools for you to foresee if your changes will be overwritten.
9 Why salesforce Deployment is Difficulty for the teams to collaborate?
Right Ans - Salesforce makes it amazingly easy for individuals to build changes
but it was not made with collaborations of large teams in mind. As your team
grows, you may find it challenging to collaborate. Synchronizing
environments, tracking the history, and being unable to merge changes on a
line-by-line basis is difficult, so you are reducing your team's possibilities to
collaborate and work together.
10 Is there any Standard tool provided by Salesforce for the deployment
Process? Right Ans - Salesforce does not provide a definitive
recommendation on how to manage the release process and doesn't include
native Agile tools and metrics.
11 Salesforce provide Quality Checks on Changes? Right Ans - Salesforce
provide only limited set of Quality Checks.
, 12 what is the built in Salesforce Quality Check ? Right Ans - Apex tests are
the only built-in Salesforce capability that ensures the quality of your
customizations. Apex tests can identify specific errors, but they are not meant
to identify code inefficiencies and bad habits before they become a problem.
13 How the company Make sure the quality of code? Right Ans - "There are
also many other types of tests that go beyond what Apex alone offers and can
help ensure the quality of your team's work. To keep their code optimized,
companies have to make further efforts in defining and implementing a code
inspection process.
14 What are the Main Challenges in the Salesforce Development Lifecycle?
Right Ans - 1. No Clear Overview of the Whole Process .2. Change Sets
Limitations 3. Difficulty Keeping Environments in Sync 4.Lack of History
Tracking 5. Difficulty for Teams to Collaborate 6.No Standard Tool or Process
for Managing Salesforce Changes 7.Limited Set of Quality Checks on Changes
8.Lack of Monitoring and Compliance 9.The Struggle of Migrating Data from
Multiple Objects 10.Difficulty to Identify and Unblock Bottlenecks
11.Insufficient Quality and Frequency of Releases
15 Right Ans -
16 What is Copado? Right Ans - Copado is a scalable Salesforce-native
application that you can download and install in an org. It provides you with a
complete system to plan, track and carry out your DevOps activities. It also
adds value in every stage of the Salesforce DevOps process.
17 What are the exciting features of Copado? Right Ans - Here are some of
the exciting features:
1.Agile Implementation: Copado helps you leverage Agile methodologies to
compose your releases and plan your sprints. 2.Quality Check: You can use the
inbuilt set of quality and compliance features to implement quality checks
right from the start of the development lifecycle.
3. Integration with Git: You can use Copado to implement seamless and
effortless integration with Git.
4. Easily Customizable: You can customize Copado effortlessly as it is a native
Salesforce app. Here are some of the actions you can perform on Copado to
personalize it for your specific requirements
1 What Is Copado? Right Ans - Standard Salesforce Development Lifecycle*
2 What is Devops? Right Ans - DevOps is a combination of practices that
automate and enable greater effectiveness in the process of building and
running software. DevOps combines the technical practices of Continuous
Delivery with the business practices of lean management and lean product
development.
3 What are the main Challenges in Salesforce Development Lifecycle? Right
Ans - The first thing you encounter is that there's not a clear overview of the
whole process. You may have these questions
Where do changes happen?
Should I start in dev1, or can I implement my changes directly in production?
Which environment do I need to deploy first?
Is it UAT or Integration?
Who is going to approve my changes?
4 what are the limitations of the change sets? Right Ans - Change Sets
Limitations - Companies spend a lot of time building change sets. Here are
some of the limitations of change sets that you should know:
1.Change sets do not offer the capability to search components by name or
type. As a developer, you are forced to browse through multiple pages to find
the metadata items you want to select.
2.If you accidentally add a component, you cannot filter within your selections
to remove the component quickly.
3.Certain components are not available to be deployed using change sets, and
it's possible to move changes only across environments that are connected.
4.With change sets, all selected components come in a single list, so you can't
scope which modification is based on which request
5. Change sets do not enable continuous delivery, and automation of
deployments is not an easy task
5 What are the difficulties Keeping Environments in Sync? Right Ans -
Release teams struggle with sandbox syncing after deploying to higher
environments. For example, if a company uses a hotfix sandbox to develop and
push fixes to production, lower environments will show discrepancies
regarding the production environment. These differences can lead to
,deployment errors and a blocked pipeline. Even having multiple developer
environments requires users to keep those environments in sync.
6 What are the Problems arise if we refresh the sandboxes.? Right Ans - 1.
Metadata loss. All the work in progress in a sandbox will be overwritten after
the refresh.
2. Full sandboxes can only be refreshed once per month, therefore they can't
easily receive changes that were sent from a hotfix environment to
production.
3. Scrambled emails. Whenever a sandbox is refreshed, user email addresses
are modified in the sandbox so that production users don't receive
automatically generated email messages from the sandbox. Hence, users are
required to validate an email address change in order to be able to log in again
into the sandbox. 4.Data loss. Unless you're refreshing a full sandbox or a
partial copy, you will lose all data. Hence, you need to recreate the test data all
over again.
8 What happens If multiple Developers working on the same components?
Right Ans - "There is a major issue when multiple developers work in the
same environment and perform changes in the same components. As
mentioned in the Change Sets Limitations section, when you work with
change sets, you have no visibility on who has made what changes, and there
are no tools for you to foresee if your changes will be overwritten.
9 Why salesforce Deployment is Difficulty for the teams to collaborate?
Right Ans - Salesforce makes it amazingly easy for individuals to build changes
but it was not made with collaborations of large teams in mind. As your team
grows, you may find it challenging to collaborate. Synchronizing
environments, tracking the history, and being unable to merge changes on a
line-by-line basis is difficult, so you are reducing your team's possibilities to
collaborate and work together.
10 Is there any Standard tool provided by Salesforce for the deployment
Process? Right Ans - Salesforce does not provide a definitive
recommendation on how to manage the release process and doesn't include
native Agile tools and metrics.
11 Salesforce provide Quality Checks on Changes? Right Ans - Salesforce
provide only limited set of Quality Checks.
, 12 what is the built in Salesforce Quality Check ? Right Ans - Apex tests are
the only built-in Salesforce capability that ensures the quality of your
customizations. Apex tests can identify specific errors, but they are not meant
to identify code inefficiencies and bad habits before they become a problem.
13 How the company Make sure the quality of code? Right Ans - "There are
also many other types of tests that go beyond what Apex alone offers and can
help ensure the quality of your team's work. To keep their code optimized,
companies have to make further efforts in defining and implementing a code
inspection process.
14 What are the Main Challenges in the Salesforce Development Lifecycle?
Right Ans - 1. No Clear Overview of the Whole Process .2. Change Sets
Limitations 3. Difficulty Keeping Environments in Sync 4.Lack of History
Tracking 5. Difficulty for Teams to Collaborate 6.No Standard Tool or Process
for Managing Salesforce Changes 7.Limited Set of Quality Checks on Changes
8.Lack of Monitoring and Compliance 9.The Struggle of Migrating Data from
Multiple Objects 10.Difficulty to Identify and Unblock Bottlenecks
11.Insufficient Quality and Frequency of Releases
15 Right Ans -
16 What is Copado? Right Ans - Copado is a scalable Salesforce-native
application that you can download and install in an org. It provides you with a
complete system to plan, track and carry out your DevOps activities. It also
adds value in every stage of the Salesforce DevOps process.
17 What are the exciting features of Copado? Right Ans - Here are some of
the exciting features:
1.Agile Implementation: Copado helps you leverage Agile methodologies to
compose your releases and plan your sprints. 2.Quality Check: You can use the
inbuilt set of quality and compliance features to implement quality checks
right from the start of the development lifecycle.
3. Integration with Git: You can use Copado to implement seamless and
effortless integration with Git.
4. Easily Customizable: You can customize Copado effortlessly as it is a native
Salesforce app. Here are some of the actions you can perform on Copado to
personalize it for your specific requirements
