Unit testing does more to assure the quality of software than any other practice. If you care about the quality of your work, you must become proficient at writing unit tests. Tip #0 Write Real Unit Tests Salesforce requires that a certain percentage of your… Read More »Apex Unit Testing Tips & Tricks
Over the years, we’ve looked unsuccessfully for a tool to generate documentation for Salesforce Apex code. Something like Oracle’s Javadoc would have been ideal, but alas – that tool won’t parse Apex. The closest thing we’ve found is Aslam Bari’s ApexDoc. After trying that – as… Read More »SfApexDoc: Apex Documentation Generation
Design by Contract “Design by Contract” was coined by Bertrand Meyer to describe a feature of his Eiffel programming language. It has its roots in formal verification and specification. The primary idea is that elements of a software system collaborate with each other on the… Read More »Apex Contract Programming
Ready for an opportunity to scrutinize a coding habit or two? Take a look at the snippet below. If you tend to write controllers that follow this format, read on. The ‘Standard’ Controller Pattern public with sharing class LoanEditController { public Loan__c loan { get; set; }… Read More »Apex Controllers: Providing Data ‘On-Demand’
Here’s a simple utility method that will return the set of values for a given field within a list of records. It’s useful, for example, when you need to find all the Accounts referenced by a list of Contacts. Or to find the unique Status… Read More »Apex Snippet: Getting Unique Field Values for a List of Records