Managing the application life cycle

By adopting an Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) approach when building changes for systems, there are several benefits, such as improved planning and change management, improved testing process, and improved project communications. ALM helps to avoid issues such as managing versions of change items and failures through a lack of testing after deploying changes, as well as reducing risk and providing an improved approach to the building of apps.

Using an organized approach to building apps and having processes and policies that support the various steps of the processes within the Lightning Platform helps to ensure that apps can be built more smoothly and, hence, more quickly. By adopting certain policies, a more robust way of building apps can be carried out that helps to ensure that functions change as expected and avoids breaking existing functionality.

Although the use of the supporting apps and tools for the management of the application...