018 — Julian Joseph: A DevOps Engineer’s guide to testing and DevOps strategy

Julian Joseph is a Salesforce DevOps Engineer that has built hugely valuable experience during his time at Salesforce, Salesforce customers, and partners. Julian has built his career following best practice engineering principles and believes that a DevOps mindset has transformative power when combined with sound business strategy.

In this episode Jack and Julian dive into the importance of high-quality testing in the Salesforce delivery lifecycle, and how Julian has levelled up his career to help teams speed up and maintain high-quality Salesforce releases. They also explore the differences between developing Salesforce applications on the customer side and the partner side.

Tune in to also hear Julian’s recommendations for source control branching, his take on effective sandbox strategy, his predictions for the DevOps ecosystem as we approach 2024, and a surprisingly simple hidden challenge in Salesforce development.

Useful links based on key themes from this episode:

Should you use a sandbox or a scratch org?
How to automate unit testing for Salesforce
What are the salesforce version control best practices?
How to refresh a Salesforce sandbox
A complete overview to Salesforce test automation
How to avoid merge conflicts in Salesforce

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