Overview

validate command helps you to validate a change made to your configuration / code against a target org. This command is typically triggered as part of your Pull Request (PR) or Merge process, to ensure the correctness of configuration/code, before being merged into your main branch. validate can either utilise a scratch org from a tagged pool prepared earlier using the prepare command or one could use the a target org for its purpose

// An example where validate is utilized against a pool 
// of earlier prepared scratch orgs with label review
 
sfp validate pool  -p review \
                   -v devhub  \
                   --diffcheck

// An example where validate is utilized against a target org 
sfp validate org -u  ci \
                 -v devhub  \
                 --installdeps  \

validate pool / validate org command runs the following checks with the options to enable additional features such as dependency and impact analysis:

• Checks accuracy of metadata by deploying the metadata to a org

• Triggers Apex Tests

• Validate Apex Test Coverage of each package (default: 75%)

• Toggle between different modes for validation

  • Individual

  • Fast Feedback

  • Thorough (Default)

  • Fast Feedback Release Config

  • Thorough Release Config

• [optional] - Validate dependencies between packages for changed component

• [optional] - Disable diff check while validating, this will validate all the packages in the repository

• [optional] - Disable parallel testing of apex tests, this will validate apex tests of each package in synchronous mode