Data Handling
Streamline Test Data Management in Salesforce Automation with ContextQA
Test data management is crucial when automating Salesforce scenarios—it keeps your tests reusable, scalable, and easy to maintain. In this guide, you'll follow the exact steps from the hands-on video to manage application-specific text data with ContextQA, focusing on parameters, variables, and test data profiles.
Introduction
Automating Salesforce workflows requires more than just scripting steps. You need a reliable way to handle data—so that when the app or scenario changes, your tests won't break. That’s where ContextQA’s test data profiles come in. Let’s walk through every piece, from understanding key concepts to executing tests with clean, maintainable data.
Understand parameters and variables
A parameter injects external test data—think usernames or passwords—directly into a test step. Parameters usually come from a test data profile so you can run the same test with a variety of input values.
A variable stores information generated or captured during the test run—like order IDs or confirmation numbers—so you can use them in later steps.
Parameters are for input, and variables are for storing data at runtime.
View or create a test data profile
Find your test data profile inside ContextQA. You’ll see several data sets created for Salesforce Login.
Test data profiles let you store multiple versions of login details. This means one test can run using many different login inputs, rather than just hard-coded values.
Set up your test case to use a test data profile
Open an existing test case for Salesforce login.
Add a new step:
At the top, click Add step and hover over the menu icon.
Choose For loop. Select your test data profile, set it to Start Loop and End Loop, then hit Create.
This loops the test steps using every set of login data you’ve added.
Reorder your steps under the for loop
Click Reorder and drag all the login steps beneath the new for loop.
Update the test case.
Inject test data into the test step using parameters
Find the step where you want to apply your data. Hit the Edit icon.
Remove the hard-coded value. Click Parameter, pick the parameter you need (for example, user email or password), then click Update.
Execute the test case with your test data profile
Click the Run button.
Choose execution.
ContextQA will now fetch data from your test data profile and supply it to the test steps when running. The test executes using your new profile data, not the old hard-coded values.
Conclusion
Managing test data with ContextQA’s test data profiles makes Salesforce test automation flexible and hassle-free. Every test stays reusable and easy to update—no more tedious code changes for every login or input tweak. Efficient data handling is the foundation for reliable, scalable automation. Try it for your next Salesforce scenario and see the difference.
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