What’s New in Flow Testing and Debugging | True to the Core Deep Dive

Looking for more True to the Core Deep Dive? In this post, we recap the key takeaways from our second episode on flow testing and debugging.

This special monthly series builds on the trusted True to the Core format you know and love, offering you a closer, more focused look at specific Salesforce Platform topics with insights straight from the product teams. 

The flow testing and debugging episode featured Salesforce Product Managers Sam Reynard, Adam White and Henry Liu. Together, they showcased recent improvements to flow testing and debugging, previewed what’s coming on the roadmap, and answered questions live.

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Watch the full episode and keep reading for the key updates and audience questions.

Flow testing and debugging updates

This episode was packed with updates on recently delivered features and upcoming plans for flow testing and debugging. Recent improvements include:

• A new debug panel that shows your setup, flow design, and run results in one unified view. After a debug run, results appear as cards in the debug panel, giving you a quick snapshot of what happened, so you can fix your flows more efficiently.
• Enhanced screen flow testing with the updated debugger, letting you flip between the screen and the canvas, and jump directly from a debug card to the affected elements.
• Unified test framework that enables you to execute Apex and flow tests together through Tooling API and CLI. 
• Add flow tests in DevOps Testing as part of your test suite or quality gate.

The team also shared near-term roadmap items and gave a glimpse of future enhancements designed to make flow testing and debugging faster and more powerful. Watch the full episode to hear all the details on our recently delivered features and get a sneak peek at what we’re working on. 

What the audience asked

The live Q&A dove deep into all things flow testing and debugging. Attendees asked about best practices for troubleshooting errors, setting up test data, and testing across different users, paths, and fault scenarios. There was also interest in whether flow tests can be deployed across sandboxes, packaged with mock data, or integrated into CI pipelines. 

Other questions covered how to test loops properly, how AI will help with better flow design and testing, and future roadmap items around Flow Builder and other areas.

Want to hear all the details and answers straight from the product team? Watch the full recording to catch every question and response.

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Resources

• Salesforce Admins Blog: The Ultimate Guide to Flow Best Practices and Standards
• Trailhead: Flow Implementation 1
• Salesforce IdeaExchange: Automatically create documentation for Processes Builder and Visual Flows