Synthetic Data Accelerator Enables Salesforce Integration Testing

Salesforce is a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform used by an estimated 150,000 businesses for customer account management. Not only does the basic Salesforce CRM handle tracking, managing, and communicating with accounts, but the various iterations of Salesforce – Manufacturing Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and more – ensure that there’s a ready-made CRM for many popular industries and applications.

The Salesforce ecosystem offers companies a comprehensive Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) system for storing customer data, tracking interactions, and automating sales and marketing processes. Most companies do not use Salesforce by itself – they include it as part of a multi-application ecosystem. Connected systems include may include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, business intelligence, warehouse management, inventory management, e-commerce, productivity suites, and more. These platforms must communicate seamlessly to ensure the company has a complete and accurate picture of sales and operations.

Meeting the Salesforce System Integration Challenge

While integrating diverse systems can be challenging, performing continuous integration testing is equally challenging. If data must flow from one system to another seamlessly to provide a 360-degree view of the company’s information, testers and developers need reliable test data to ensure that the data transferred between Salesforce and other platforms in their ecosystem is working seamlessly.

To ensure data quality and privacy, dev and test teams need controlled and conditioned synthetic test data in the precise volume, variety, and format to ensure the accuracy and performance of end-to-end systems.

GenRocket’s Salesforce Accelerator makes it easy to model a synthetic test dataset that is fully compatible with both Salesforce Standard and Custom Objects. In Salesforce terminology, database tables are referred to as objects, columns are fields and rows are records. GenRocket offers an option to import a data model from Salesforce as one of its 14 methods for modeling the synthetic data produced during the data generation process.

Any Salesforce Object can be selected and imported as a GenRocket Domain, and its Fields can be selected to become GenRocket Attributes of the Domain. From there, intelligent Generators are automatically assigned and can be configured to produce synthetic data in the volume and variety needed for any given test case. Multiple Salesforce environments can be modeled and stored as Salesforce Profiles to streamline access and reusability.

With GenRocket, synthetic data can be controlled and conditioned to accurately test business rules during functional testing or simulate real-world load conditions during performance testing. This allows teams to maximize test coverage as they ensure the accuracy and efficiency of data exchanged between connected systems.

Our knowledge base has many helpful articles on How GenRocket Integrates Dynamically with Salesforce.

A Simple Example of GenRocket’s Salesforce Accelerator

Let’s assume the following data needs to be generated for a Salesforce Object.

• Generate 100 Salesforce Opportunities – Within these opportunities, we want to condition the data for two fields: Accounts and StageName.
• Randomly Distributed Across 20 Accounts – We need to retrieve 20 IDs from Salesforce so that we can control the random distribution of these accounts throughout the opportunities.
• Set the value of the StageName field – We want to generate a set of values to meet the following conditions:
  • 40% should be closedLost or closedWon
    • 20% should be closedLost
    • 80% should be closedWon
  • 60% should be any of the other StageName values
  • They should be randomly chosen

A test dataset can be instantly generated producing synthetic data based on the predefined rules for volume and variety.

Learn More about How to Generate Conditioned Test Data for Salesforce with GenRocket.

GenRocket Helps Major Auto Retailer Drive Higher Efficiency

A national online retailer of pre-owned automobiles contacted GenRocket looking for help producing synthetic test data for a complex interconnected technology infrastructure that included Salesforce. The company sold cars through an e-commerce portal that tracked sales, shipping, and inventory. Salesforce was used to manage account relationships, while other platforms handled accounting, operations, and finance. All systems needed to communicate seamlessly to ensure that customers could set up an account, search for their desired vehicle by year, make, model, color, price and a variety of options, and then purchase it online.

To test such a system, their developers sought help from GenRocket to produce Salesforce-based synthetic test data. The testers and developers needed to ensure the data interchange between Salesforce and the remaining platforms in the ecosystem was seamless.

GenRocket helped to configure its Salesforce Accelerator to produce synthetic test data that could be used to test all connected systems. GenRocket’s Salesforce Accelerator remains a popular choice for companies seeking to test interactions and connections between Salesforce and other platforms.

Features

• The ability to import Salesforce Standard and Custom Objects
• Models a subset of records quickly and easily
• Generates the desired volume and variety required for testing
• Enables testers to switch between Salesforce profiles as needed

Benefits

• No coding required – the Accelerator is already created, written, and ready for use
• Works within any Salesforce platform, cloud or on premise
• Enables fast and easy modeling of Salesforce-based synthetic test data
• Ensures data privacy while maximizing coverage and speed

Results

The GenRocket Salesforce Accelerator not only produced synthetic test data based on the required Salesforce Objects, but it also enabled the testers to dramatically speed up systems testing.

The ability to generate the volume, variety, and Salesforce-based format of synthetic test data ensured that the company could test all forms of data exchanged between all systems much more quickly and easily than ever before.

GenRocket Salesforce Accelerator: We’re Ready!

For large enterprises running multiple COTS systems, Salesforce is a trusted CRM that helps manage accounts and account data. Ensuring that data transfer among systems is bug-free is an important step for testers and developers integrating Salesforce into their company’s ecosystem. The GenRocket Salesforce Accelerator makes a difficult testing process easy and efficient.