November 2019 Summaries

Rollbar has expanded its error monitoring and debugging capabilities to include Salesforce Apex applications, allowing developers to monitor multiple organizations, apps, and users in real-time from a single platform. This development addresses a need identified by customers and enables easy access to unhandled exception data without sifting through emails or the developer console. Rollbar provides real-time error notifications, advanced filtering options, and a consolidated view of all unhandled Apex exceptions, while also allowing users to assign issues to developers and integrate with various issue-tracking tools. This enhancement is designed to improve productivity and speed up time-to-market by reducing the effort required to manage code quality across internal and external applications. Setting up Rollbar for Apex applications is straightforward, and additional features for the Apex SDK are anticipated in the coming months.

Quality Assurance (QA) traditionally involves a manual process where QA teams meticulously follow test plans, find bugs, and create reports, which can be labor-intensive and time-consuming, especially for developers who need to reproduce and fix these bugs. Rollbar offers a solution by providing advanced error monitoring and reporting tools that automate the capture of detailed error data across various platforms, including Node.js, Ruby, Python, and more. By integrating Rollbar, developers can access real-time error streams with comprehensive tracing information, linking errors directly to the source code to expedite debugging. This tool also allows for integration with version control systems like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, and can send customizable alerts via collaboration tools such as Slack and PagerDuty. This not only enhances collaboration between QA and development teams but also helps prevent software defects from reaching production stages, allowing teams to focus more on improving code quality and deploying updates confidently.