If you are building a commercial Force.com app with a team of developers, this session is for you. Join us to learn best practices for setting up your Force.com IDE, managing source code, creating automated builds, deploying to test environments, and more. Hear from a panel of seasoned ISVs who are employing key team development principles. This session is primarily for product managers, architects, and developers (isvpartners).
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Team Development and Release Management
1. Team Development & Release
Management for ISVs
Andrew Albert, salesforce.com
Jordan Baucke, BracketLabs
Eric Wilcox, FinancialForce
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12. FinancialForce’s Continuous Build Process
1 Checkout build
Source Code Repository
Deploy to Server
Hudson Server Deploy to Server (with Check Only)
Force.com Migration Tool 3 4
2 Run undeploy script
Testing Org Packaging Org
13. Teardown – How to dynamically clean an org
1 Ant Retrieve
Clean
2 Std Obj Layouts
Target Org
3 Build Package
4 Deploy Layouts
5 Build Destructive Changes
6 Deploy
15. BracketLab’s QA Process
1 Checkout build
Source Code
Jenkins Server Repository
Force.com Migration Tool
2 Run Migration tool & deploy to all editions
Partner Test Edition (EE) Professional Edition Group Edition
16. 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!!!
18. How to release an app (unmanaged -> managed)
3
2 Run Namespacing script Run Test Methods
Verify components
Run Code Scanners
Hudson Server Packaging DE org
Force.com Migration Tool
1
Get Build 4 Create Managed-Beta
6
Create Managed-Release
5
Install and Test Editions & Browsers
Source Code Repository
19. Namespace conversion script
Solved with Ruby script
(basically glorified find and
replace)
Find & Replace: /*NS*/-
MyNamespace.
https://github.com/
jordanbaucke/sfdc-
• Javascript references to 'Web Service' methods namespace-prefix
o Javascript Remoting, VF Ajax Toolkit, APEX REST
Endpoints
• Dynamic SOQL
• VF Pages referenced in custom buttons
22. How do you test your app w/ each
salesforce release?
Partner Portal: http://p.force.com/releases
Twitter: @partnerforce
23. Takeaways
1 Setting up a new Developer demo:
https://github.com/BracketLabs/AppExchange-Team-Development-on-Force.com-Platform-Demo
2 Undeploy Script to Clean out a test org:
https://github.com/financialforcedev/df12-deployment-tools
3
Find/Replace Ruby script to prepend namespace:
https://github.com/jordanbaucke/sfdc-namespace-prefix
4 Use the DF12 Session Chatter Group to collaborate
5 Team Development articles on developer.force.com
24. Andrew Albert Jordan Baucke Eric Wilcox
salesforce.com BracketLabs FinancialForce
ISV Technical Enablement Developer/Architect Senior Developer/Architect