5 Salesforce DevOps Testing Tools Every Finance Company Needs
Salesforce testing tools help financial organizations maintain critical security and productivity standards throughout the DevOps pipeline.
Why It Matters: A simple mistake in the application lifecycle can lead to costly errors in live environments. And for banks, these errors can create compliance failures, data loss, and exposures of their customers’ most sensitive information.
- Downtime costs a company anywhere from $5,600 to nearly $9,000 per minute.
- Improper testing leads to unreliable applications and updates once they hit live environments.
- Banks face fines and penalties for falling out of compliance with applicable data security regulations.
Here are five Salesforce testing tools that help financial organizations keep their DevOps pipeline productive and secure.
- Static Code Analysis
- Continuous Integration + Continuous Delivery
- Performance Testing
- Security Testing
- Backup + Recovery
1. Static Code Analysis
Strong code can be the difference between a secure application and introducing vulnerabilities into your system. Financial organizations need to avoid every potential liability they can to protect sensitive data.
Static code analysis automatically notifies developers the moment a coding error is introduced into the repository, enabling them to quickly and easily fix the error.
Identifying risks early in the development lifecycle reduces the cost of fixing these mistakes, while also guaranteeing they are rectified long before the application hits a live environment. Finance companies handle incredibly sensitive information. They can’t afford misfires caused by faulty applications.
2. Continuous Integration + Continuous Delivery
An update or application is liable to have thousands of lines of code. Manually merging, integrating, testing, and deploying this code is incredibly time consuming and when approach manually, prone to errors.
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools automate these processes to ensure smooth and expedient delivery of coding updates into production environments.
A CI/CD pipeline streamlines the process of deploying updates with the delays and errors associated with manual deployments. Avoiding these mistakes and preserving timeliness helps finance companies quickly introduce necessary updates while preserving quality processes that remain compliant with financial regulations.
3. Performance Testing
A thorough understanding of how your Salesforce DevSecOps project will behave in a live environment better positions your team to avoid costly errors, bugs, and vulnerabilities. Teams need to install multiple rounds of testing throughout the application lifecycle to root out any potential misfires.
Performance testing is critical to understanding the speed, salability, and stability of the update or application when it is deployed to a live environment.
Financial organizations need to ensure smooth experiences for their users. Banking customers expect a lot, and these processes need to be flawless and secure. Performance testing allows finance companies to simulate high transaction volumes and ensure their Salesforce instances can handle peak loads, like end-of-month reporting or high-volume trading periods.
4. Security Testing
Compliance with data security regulations needs to remain top-of-mind for financial organizations. They handle incredibly sensitive information. Failing to protect it leads to compliance failures, fines, and loss of consumer trust.
Automated security testing identifies vulnerabilities such as improper permissions settings, SOQL injections, weak API integrations, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, and more.
Financial data is highly sensitive. Finance companies need to be able to find every potential vulnerability before it can be exploited. Team members can take this initiative far, but the assistance of an automated tool is crucial to maintain proper coverage.
5. Backup + Recovery
Salesforce testing tools protect your financial data on the front end—securing your data and your platform. However, you can never be completely certain your data security strategy won’t fall victim to a breach. You need to have a plan in place to mitigate these security breaches.
Automated backup snapshots should be scheduled according to internal recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) standards.
These backups—along with a recovery tool to get the data up and running—are critical to maintaining connectivity, protecting sensitive data, and remaining compliant with data security regulations. A comprehensive approach to data security requires Salesforce testing tools alongside disaster recovery protocols.
Next Step…
Automated testing helps banks streamline the application development lifecycle, but when it comes to data security, anything less than a comprehensive approach could leave you vulnerable to data loss.
Check out our ebook, Staying Safe From the Inside Out: Creating a Secure Culture in Salesforce DevOps, to learn how you can ensure every member of your team is helping keep sensitive data secure.
FAQs
How do DevOps testing tools enhance security in software development for banks?
People get tired. And when this happens in software development, mistakes happen. DevOps testing tools automate the detection of vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle, so these mistakes don’t negatively impact security and functionality. Errors in coding structures create misfires in live environments that can corrupt, delete, or expose data. And for financial organizations, data exposures and corruptions can have catastrophic results for customers as well as the organization. It’s critical for a bank to do all they can to eliminate errors from live environments to secure sensitive data and maintain compliance with data security regulations.
What do banks need to look for when selecting DevOps testing tools for regulatory compliance?
Banks handle their customers’ most sensitive information, which is why there are a series of data security regulations that relate to how this data is handled. Data protection standards like PCI-DSS, SOX, and GDPR have strict stipulations relating to classification, storage, and security protocols for sensitive information. Robust audit trails to track changes and activities simplify the process of verifying compliance with these regulations. Total coverage, heightened visibility, and reliable automation should all be prioritized when selecting a new set of DevOps tools.
What benefits will financial organizations see from implementing DevOps testing tools?
Banks need to stay on the cutting edge of software products. Their customers expect to be able to perform most banking functions from their phones, and these applications need to operate smoothly and securely. Implementing DevOps testing tools enables these organizations to quickly introduce reliable software releases. Automating testing processes reduce the risk of human error and accelerates the deployment of new features and updates. The quality and security of these releases will also benefit from automated DevOps testing tools because bugs will be caught earlier in the application development lifecycle—which will also help maintain compliance with data security regulations.
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