We’ve heard your feedback about wanting some seeded test data when you get started with your testing. We’re exploring a feature called Sandbox Templates to allow you to create a new sandbox with seeded data related to specific use cases (e.g. a sales-led SaaS business with an assortment of customers, products, subscriptions, and invoices).
What types of use cases would you like to see a Sandbox Template for? What pain points do you have when it comes to seeding data?
Stripe ID’s changing between environment’s is the biggest challenge for us with respect to Sandboxes. (which to be fair, existed in test mode, too).
Being able to “seed” from production and preserve the stripe id’s, or, being able to specifically stripe id’s during the seeding process in some way would be huge for our use case.
Overall though, sandboxes is a massive improvement over test mode!
What about spinning up a sandbox template “ephemerally?” Use case would be for more thorough testing in a CI/CD pipeline, where we could create a seeded sandbox via a template, run tests and then tear it down.
Exactly ^. CI/CD pipelines are the exact use-case we’re looking at.
I can’t even access the template creation interface from the Stripe dashboard. I’m only trying because the AI chatbot told me that a step in how to create a template. I’m guessing that was incorrect, but I’d love it if someone could explain the process of template creation, or point me toward documentation that explains it. Thanks ahead of time for taking time to consider my question.