Quick Deploy –  Deployments in less time

What is quick deploy? By using this option you can deploy components to production with running test classes on your project release day. But you have to do successful validation before your release day.

Generally in salesforce deploying code to production very hard when your organization contain more test methods. If your organization contain more test methods, then your release will very long. But to avoid this, salesforce has provided quick deploy option. By using this option you can deploy code to production in very less time on your project release day.

This quick deployment option is only available for production environments. This not doesn’t applicable for non production organization & deployments not required for apex tests.

Salesforce has released this as a pilot program. If you want to enable this option for your org, then you you need to contact salesforce.com.

See below screen to under stand quick deployment option.

Quick Deployment

If you did a successful validation of your package, then you can deploy that same deployment without running any test classes to your production. This option is valid for 4 days (96 hours) for successful validated deployment. Quick deployments are available only for validations with test runs that have passed  in the last four days.