Copado - #1 Salesforce DevOps Tool
What do you like best?
It provides an integrated solution for deploying our changes through the pipeline management and also takes care of the test runs, coverage and static code analysis so that we can monitor the health of out application before sending to production and lessen the risk of vulnerable code present in prod.
What do you dislike?
- I have faced issues regarding merge conflicts like feature branch remains clean but the promotion branch introduces few extra code due to which deployment fails and we need to edit the promotion manually.
- Sometimes have noticed the problem of the changes getting deployed to the environment but the git sync doesn't happen properly and it needs to be taken care manually.
- In case the changes doesn't have any errors but there is some coverage issue, it fails with warning and doesn't list out the coverage issues in the deployment page. We need to manually check the deployment status in the destination org which is an extra burden.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a salesforce developer and have been looking for a DevOps solution for deploying your changes and at the same time is considerate about the health and quality of the changes getting deployed to your production, its the best solution. Provides ways to automate and integrate Copado with other tools. Its customer support and the updates/releases are smoother and any new feature requirement is also taken care through the portal. It engages its customers with not only providing a solution/tool but also taking care of our valuable feedback.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We generally use it to deploy our SF changes to higher orgs using Copado.
Benefits observed are:
- Provides test run to ensure the health of the solution getting deployed.
- Static code analysis and scoring brings out the vulnerability earlier to the production deployment.
- Easier and cost effective DevOps solution compared to other tools.
- Can automate the deployment process as well by creating the promotion and triggering the validation for multiple user stories before the actual deployment so as to reduce the risk of failure on the release day. Also, we can send the errors to the owner of the user story and they can fix and recommit the stories beforehand.
