You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Automated regression testing

While Apex and Lightning Web Components tests are very much key tools for monitoring regressions in your application, the limitations and scope of the functionality such tests can cover are small by design, since they are unit tests, not integration tests. Thus, they are not particularly suited to performing large data volume or full end-to-end user interface testing.

The preceding pipeline configuration creates only one scratch org with a given configuration. You can, of course, create multiple scratch orgs of different org types and feature configurations to perform different kinds of testing. For example, a scratch org with and without the Multi-Currency feature enabled.

Here are some considerations for implementing further testing approaches:

It is possible to execute the Apex code from shell scripts using the approach described earlier in this chapter when we populated the scratch org with sample data by calling the...