team development and release management

Team Development & Release Management for ISVs

Andrew Albert, salesforce.com Jordan Baucke, BracketLabs Eric Wilcox, FinancialForce

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Andrew Albert Director, ISV Technical Enablement

aalbert@salesforce.com

Jordan Baucke Developer/Architect

@jordanbaucke @bracketlabs @readytalkgeeks

Eric Wilcox Senior Developer/Architect

roc.wilcox@gmail.com

How to setup a new developer

Developer Toolset

Force.com IDE

salesforce Dev & Test Environments

Source Control

Force.com Migration Tool

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Force.com IDE Force.com Migration Tool git

Partner Developer Edition

Source Code Repository

1 Configure & Run Ant Script 2 git clone git@github/Project

3 Repository downloaded to machine

4 Deploy to Server

5 git add

Setup environment & Check in

Setting up a new environment Demo

Compare & Contrast

Tip: API versioning

Continuous Builds & QA

FinancialForce’s Continuous Build Process

Testing Org

Source Code Repository

Hudson Server Force.com Migration Tool

Run undeploy script 2

Checkout build 1

Deploy to Server 3

Packaging Org

Deploy to Server (with Check Only) 4

Teardown – How to dynamically clean an org

Target Org

Ant Retrieve

Clean Std Obj Layouts

Build Package

Build Destructive Changes

Deploy

Deploy Layouts

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Undeploy Script Demo

BracketLab’s QA Process

Partner Test Edition (EE)

Source Code Repository Jenkins Server

Force.com Migration Tool

Checkout build 1

Run Migration tool & deploy to all editions 2

Professional Edition Group Edition

Handling different editions and features? Group Edition Professional Edition Enterprise Edition

Know which edition-specific features your app requires: Record Types, Workflow, etc Know which org-specific features your app requires: Chatter, Multi-Currency, Sharing, Profiles, etc

TIP: Test your app in the different editions!!!

Release Management

How to release an app (unmanaged -> managed)

Hudson Server Force.com Migration Tool

Packaging DE org

2 Run Namespacing script Run Test Methods Verify components Run Code Scanners

Install and Test Editions & Browsers

Source Code Repository

1 Get Build

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4 Create Managed-Beta

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Create Managed-Release

Namespace conversion script

•  Javascript references to 'Web Service' methods o  Javascript Remoting, VF Ajax Toolkit, APEX REST

Endpoints •  Dynamic SOQL •  VF Pages referenced in custom buttons

Solved with Ruby script (basically glorified find and replace) Find & Replace: /*NS*/-MyNamespace.

https://github.com/jordanbaucke/sfdc-namespace-prefix

Don’t Forget to….

Update Appexchange Listing 1

Update Appexchange Test Drive 2

Update Release Notes 3

Update Installation Guide 4

Update Trialforce Source orgs 5

How do you schedule your releases?

How do you test your app w/ each salesforce release?

Partner Portal: http://p.force.com/releases Twitter: @partnerforce

Takeaways

Undeploy Script to Clean out a test org: https://github.com/financialforcedev/df12-deployment-tools

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Find/Replace Ruby script to prepend namespace: https://github.com/jordanbaucke/sfdc-namespace-prefix 3

Use the DF12 Session Chatter Group to collaborate 4

Team Development articles on developer.force.com 5

Setting up a new Developer demo: https://github.com/BracketLabs/AppExchange-Team-Development-on-Force.com-Platform-Demo

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Andrew Albert

salesforce.com ISV Technical Enablement

Jordan Baucke

BracketLabs Developer/Architect

Eric Wilcox

FinancialForce Senior Developer/Architect