Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) Tooling Changes the Way You Work
Provide Developers Access to Salesforce DX Tools
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Sandboxes
Track Changes Between Your Project and Org
Work with Data
Work With Small Datasets
Work With Large Datasets
Work With Individual Records
Run a SOQL or SOSL Query
Upload a File to Your Org
Salesforce DX MCP Server and Tools
Development
Build and Release Your App
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Work with Data

Development environments, such as scratch orgs and developer sandboxes, need a set of stock data for testing.

Sometimes, the stock data in a development environment doesn’t meet your development needs. Apex tests generally create their own data. Therefore, if Apex tests are the only tests you’re running in a scratch org, you probably don’t need to worry about data for the time being. However, other tests, such as UI, API, or user acceptance tests, do need baseline data. Scale and performance testing often requires a very large set of data. Make sure that you use consistent datasets when you run tests of each type.

Scratch orgs come with the same set of data as the edition on which they’re based. For example, Developer Edition orgs typically include 10–15 records for key standard objects, such as Account, Contact, and Lead. These records come in handy when you’re testing something like a new Apex trigger, flow, or Lightning web component.

The following sections describe the Salesforce CLI commands you can use to populate your orgs and provide basic usage examples. The commands you use depend on your current stage of development.