AI has opinions about our DX, and our test suites are overdue for a tune‑up. Two talks packed with practical lessons on building better, faster Salesforce teams.

Please note that this is an IN-PERSON event only, and sadly due to repeat no-shows we might have to start REFUSING ENTRY to folk if they RSVP and repeatedly don't make the events. This is something we really want to enforce, but many folk have not been able to attend the events due to others taking up a ticket and then not showing up. We understand that plans do change, but if they do please update your RSVP as soon as you can.

Your DX Was Always Bad, AI Just Complained - Beech Horn

Learnings from vibe coding and how working to improve results and the agentic developer experience revealed that they were actually gaps in the human developer experience too.

Accelerate Salesforce Testing: Cut Runtime 66% with Mocking - Manzoor Shaik & Alexander Skelding

Is your Salesforce test suite taking hours to run? This talk shares how we transformed an enterprise-scale Salesforce partner implementation from a 131-minute test execution bottleneck into a 33-minute validation machine—achieving a 66% reduction in runtime while supporting 40-50 developers across 14 global teams.

The Problem

Enterprise test suites that rely heavily on database operations don't scale. As our codebase grew, test runtime increased 22% every four months, crippling our CI/CD pipeline and developer productivity.

The Solution

1. Query and DML Mocking - Eliminating expensive database operations in tests by mocking queries and data manipulation, reducing individual test class execution from 15+ seconds to under 2 seconds

2. Parallel Test Execution - Run tests concurrently with proper safeguards

Real-World Impact

- Battle-tested solution from an enterprise serving 40-50 developers

- Award-winning approach (Stevie Gold, Globee Bronze)

- 3x improvement in pipeline throughput

- Sustained performance over 6+ months

What You'll Learn

- When to implement mocking vs traditional testing approaches

- Practical code patterns for Query and DML mocking

- How to enable parallel execution safely at scale

- Trade-offs and limitations to consider

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As always, we will give everyone plenty of time to talk and network, eat, and have a fun and relaxing evening. We'll also cover the latest news from the community, and hopefully have some swag to give away too

Please note this is an in-person only event - only RSVP if you are confident you will be able to attend.

Huge thanks to Collinson for hosting and to the Trailblazer Community for sponsoring us this month.

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