Full Copy Sandbox
- Full sandboxes copy your entire production organization and all of its data, including standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments
Configuration Only Sandbox
- Copy all of your production organization’s reports, dashboards, price books, products, apps, and customizations under Setup, but exclude all of your organization’s standard and custom object records, documents, and attachments.
- Creating a configuration-only sandbox can decrease the time it takes to create or refresh a sandbox from several hours to just a few minutes, but it can only include up to 500 MB of data
Developer Sandbox
- Special configuration-only sandboxes intended for coding and testing by a single developer. They provide an environment in which changes under active development can be isolated until they are ready to be shared.
- Developer Sandboxes copy all application and configuration information to the sandbox, but are limited to 10 MB of test or sample data
Where Do I Develop?
| Developer sandbox | Configuration-only sandbox | Full copy sandbox | |
| Development |
perfect, if extension app
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also fine
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slower to copy
giving developers access to data may not be ok
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| Testing |
unit tests
apex tests
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best for feature test
load standard data for regression
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best for production debugging
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| Testing external integrations |
not a good fit
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special cases only
use sample or subset data
works well if using external ids
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frequently required
external system expects full production data to be present
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| Staging / UAT |
not a good fit
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sometimes appropriate if testing against subset of production data is acceptable, e.g. regional
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usually required
validation of new apps against production config and data
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| Sandboxes Available / Edition |
EE – 1 sandbox
UE – 1 sandbox
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UE – 5 config sandboxes
Note: Can purchase up to 6 config only sandboxes
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UE – 1 full sandbox
Note :Can purchase up to 3 full sandboxes
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| Considerations |
Small 10 MB
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500 MB storage
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Same as production
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thanks bro….. helped me a lot. Would b better if i would get pricing details as well.
just thought i’d mention that if you can’t do a another full-sandbox and have spare dev/config sandboxes, you can copy data from prod to the config/dev sandbox using this app i developed (www.sfApex.com) allowing you to perform the regression testing for data, production debugging, staging and UAT. Btw, this is a great thread, i’ve reffered back to this thread more than 20 times over past few months. Thanks