Salesforce Testing

Automated end-to-end testing for
the Salesforce multi-cloud

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Stay ahead of Salesforce updates
Quickly catch regressions when there’s an update to Classic or Lightning, or any AppExchange plug-ins—even during preview periods and in sandboxes.
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Test all of Salesforce
LWC & Apex
Cross-system orchestrations
Salesforce flows
AppExchange Apps
Agentforce
Marketing & Sales Cloud
Data Cloud integrations
Service & Sales Cloud
MuleSoft APIs
...and everything else in your stack
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Validate compliance & security
Check that data security and privacy rules are maintained after each release, on both Salesforce and in-house systems, and during transfer.

About Salesforce regression testing

Automated regression testing for Salesforce-powered and -integrated apps is a safeguard against the unpredictable and intertwined systems your business relies on. A routine deployment could be the butterfly wings that causes a hurricane in your sales pipeline, or exposes you to data security risks.

But testing for those overlooked API dependencies or misaligned object relationships isn’t just routine black-box testing in SFDC.

Modern Salesforce environments introduce complexity across Lightning Web Components, Flows, Agentforce automations, granular permission models, governor limits, and multi-cloud data orchestration.Testing the surface isn’t enough. The full flow needs validation. That’s what QA Wolf is built for.

How it's done

Regression testing every Salesforce integration

Automated QA for apps that move data in and out of your Salesforce, run custom Apex components, or sell a complete solution on AppExchange.

Test on your environments, or Salesforce’s

Our cloud infrastructure can run against any of your environments, as well as Salesforce’s sandboxes and scratch environments. You decide the best mix based on your data and system configurations.

Test data set up and teardown

Using an API, the Salesforce Data Loader, an Apex utility class, or on-demand migrations from Production to a sandbox.
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Parallelized test runs

Containerized tests use their own API tokens with individual rate limits.

Pre-update checks

Avoid regressions by testing during preview periods on sandbox and scratch environments.
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Bugs bagged and sorted

Bug reports come back in minutes, already tagged as affecting production or pre-release preview versions of Salesforce.

Bugs bagged and sorted

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Bug reports come back in minutes, already tagged as affecting production or pre-release preview versions of Salesforce.

Salesforce Testing 360

If Salesforce is integrated into your application, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be connected to a critical business process that cannot break down. You need comprehensive regression tests throughout the flow of data, running every day and every deploy, to catch regressions before they become revenue losses.

Data integrity and visibility

Data syncing and transformation

Make sure your cloud stays in sync with your Salesforce Clouds, reports are accurate, and validation rules are applied.
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Importing and exporting records

Validate data in dozens of file formats, including Excel and PDF.

User permissions and security

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Make sure users see and do only what they’re supposed to — no more, no less — at the field level or record level

UI functional testing

Classic to Lightning migrations

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Test that Classic pages and components continue working as you update to Lightning.

Language and framework interoperability

Validate that Lightning Web Components work with legacy Aura components work with Apex triggers, controllers, and extensions — and vice versa.
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Custom apps, objects, fields

Test basic functionality, design standards,  events and triggers, data flows, and security requirements, and compliance.

Cross-browser & responsive design

Visual and functional testing across various browsers, OSes, and breakpoints.
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Workflows and business rules

Database loads

Use parallel test runs to simulate heavy loads on database operations, either through the UI or a direct API call.
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Triggers and automations

Test event-triggered jobs, batch jobs, and time-based jobs.

Notification delivery

Make sure users receive timely email, SMS, and in-app messages.
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Calculations and transformations

Carry the one across Salesforce Clouds, data exports, charts, and tables.

Integrations and API testing

API and schema validation

Validate that API calls return data, that the API is performant, and that the data is structured properly.

AppExchange apps and plug-ins

Run a full suite of tests from authentication configurations to security checks.
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FAQs

The best way to test Salesforce apps is with automated end-to-end regression tests that validate data flows, permissions, automations, and integrations across Lightning, Apex, and connected systems.

QA Wolf runs parallelized tests against sandboxes and sandbox environments to catch regressions before releases and Salesforce updates. Teams can use QA Wolf’s Agentic Automated Testing tool to build and run Salesforce tests themselves, or choose our managed service where we create and maintain the suite for them.

Yes. Tests can cover each cloud individually, as well as integrations between the clouds and your application.

Absolutely! You can create a unique test per experience and run them in parallel to isolate failures and speed up debugging.

Tests use isolated data and controlled environments to prevent interference with existing records. Teams can run against sandboxes or scratch environments to validate behavior without impacting production data.

Tests run with the permission sets assigned to the configured user. When validating permission changes, tests can interact with the interface the same way a Salesforce admin or end user would.
Where appropriate, Salesforce APIs can also be used to validate or modify permissions as part of a test scenario.

Yes. You can write tests that validate their actual UX, their integration points with your other systems, even the installation flow.

We use Microsoft Playwright for test automation, and a Kubernetes and Docker infrastructure to run them in parallel.

Pass/fail results will be shown in the QA Wolf platform, as well as your CI/CD tools.

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