DevOps Quick Bites - Seeding data for better DevOps

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In this episode of DevOps Quick Bites, Rob reiterates the importance of quality test data in your development and testing environments

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About Gearset:

Gearset is the leading Salesforce DevOps platform, with powerful solutions for metadata and CPQ deployments, CI/CD, automated testing, sandbox seeding and backups. It helps Salesforce teams apply DevOps best practices to their development and release process, so they can rapidly and securely deliver higher-quality projects.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:53 The trouble with sandboxes

01:17 False positives

01:46 Dependencies, validations and automation

02:18 Populating with production data

02:52 Populating with synthetic data

03:33 The risk of exposing sensitive data

04:10 Data masking

04:50 Moving the data securely

05:59 Adding automation

07:07 Wrapping up