I started with reusable Salesforce test data and ended up building a Chrome extension for QA evidence too
A week or so ago I posted ForcePilot 1.5 here because I was getting tired of creating the same Salesforce test data again and again.
The idea was pretty simple:
make the changes once → record them → use them on another record.
That part is still there.
But after actually using it while testing Salesforce, I kept running into another problem. Creating the test data was only one part of the work. I still had to go through the test steps, take screenshots, keep evidence somewhere, and then put everything together at the end.
So I ended up building the next version around that.
What you can do now
Testing Sessions
Start a session with a test case and its steps, or just start one without a test case when you're doing exploratory testing.
Screenshots + evidence
Take screenshots while you're testing, paste screenshots from the clipboard, and keep everything together in the same session.
Autofill while testing
Use saved recordings to fill Salesforce fields instead of entering the same setup data again.
Resume testing
Stop halfway through and come back later instead of starting everything again.
Finish the session + export evidence
When you're done, you can export the evidence as a Word document or as a ZIP containing the screenshots.
Everything from 1.5 is still there too... recording field changes, replaying them, relative dates, picklists and multi-selects, retrying failed fields, editing recordings, etc.
A few other things I added:
- Alt + X to open/close ForcePilot
- Bubble / Edge / Off launcher options
- Dark mode
- Better Salesforce object and record detection when navigating
- A bunch of smaller UI and reliability improvements
The main difference for me is that it has gone from:
"make the same Salesforce data faster"
to something more like:
prepare the data → run the test → capture evidence → finish the test
I'm still building this around the way I actually do Salesforce testing, so I'd really like to hear from people who do salesforce testing.
What part of Salesforce testing do you still find unnecessarily repetitive?
GitHub: https://github.com/SamDannyl/ForcePilot
It's free and open source and still very much a work in progress. Would love to hear your suggestions.
And yes, I'm still very much a Salesforce QA guy building a Chrome extension with AI 😅