Development tools
Development tools are the tools that are used to develop the application, including some portion of declarative (point-click) development (creating objects and fields using metadata) and programming development (Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages). The development tools are as follows:
- Force.com IDE: The Force.com IDE is an open source (you can download the source from https://github.com/forcedotcom/idecore) Eclipse-based tool, which can be used to create, modify, and deploy the Force.com application from a local computer. It provides a full-featured, collaborative development environment for coding, compiling and testing, and version controlling. The major features of the Force.com IDE are as follows:
- Writing and managing Apex classes and triggers.
- Unit tests can be executed with the Apex Test Runner and can provide the code coverage report.
- Locating the syntax errors while you are writing the code and providing error messages and debugging output.
- Creating, modifying...