Hi, I am new to developing with Sales Force.  The first issue that has jumped out at me is that there is no way to test our integration-code changes before deploying them for 'real' use.  Testing against my 'Developer Account' is not useful because my developer account does not contain all the data, custom fields, objects, rules, etc.  It is very far from being a reliable test bend for pre-deployment changes.

Without a test environment, it is difficult to not only perform QA but it it difficult to even develop code since the code can't be executed and debugged during development.

Has anyone else found this limitiation as challenging as we have?  It would be nice if there was at least some way to backup our account and then restore it again after testing.

Len.