CODE ANALYZE
As organizations continue to drive towards digital transformation, it is incumbent upon businesses to take a deliberate approach to ensuring the most effective use of Salesforce. A key strategy for maximizing the potential of Salesforce is code analysis –examining your codebase to identify inefficiencies and redundancies, and gain a better understanding of how your system is working. The purpose of code analysis is to identify and resolve application issues and inefficiencies quickly and efficiently. It is an iterative process of code reviews and subsequent re-analysis to ensure that your app meets its business objectives. Taking the time to do a code audit and fix any errors can often have drastic improvements on user experience and system performance. Your first step should be to identify the elements of your Salesforce system that require particular attention from a code analysis standpoint. Elements often requiring closer review include user behavior and analytics, workflow processes, custom code, mobile and app architecture, integration points, and so on. Next, you want to analyze what needs to be improved. This requires evaluating areas like the usage of APIs, the number of lines of code, and the complexity of the architecture. You will want to also evaluate user scenarios and use cases to be sure that everything is optimized. This would include areas such as: • Testing user performance and how quickly users can interact with the application • Variable analysis and validation to better understand application performance and identify issues • Analyzing API calls and web service calls and optimizing code to reduce wait times • Auditing and validating code to optimize platform usage You will also need to look for opportunities to reduce redundant coding and optimize code wherever possible. Redundant functions should be eliminated, and components refactored to maximize the efficiency of the app. Evaluating security roles and data access is also an important part of your code audit. Once your code review has been completed, and areas of improvement identified, you need to move quickly to fix the issues. This should be done using industry best practices to ensure that optimized performance is maintained. It is important to get to root causes, not just treat the symptoms, so the issue is resolved holistically. For most organizations, code audit and analysis of a Salesforce application should not be an afterthought. An ongoing code audit can have a dramatic effect on user experience and system performance. Offloading the process to an experienced software provider to deliver a comprehensive release management, data backup and recovery, and security solution allows your team to focus on developing your business applications without having to worry about your codebase.
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