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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619773
Length 712 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned that integration testing focuses on the scope of UIs or APIs exposed via your services to test the full stack of your code. It requires setting up the database, executing the code to be tested, and querying the database. These tests are critical to ensuring that all the components of your application deliver the expected behavior.

This chapter also introduced unit testing. Here, you learned that in order to make individual code components, classes, and methods as robust and future-proof as possible, developers can test each method in isolation without incurring the overhead of setting up the database or updating it. As such, unit tests run more quickly. Unit tests can increase coverage, as more corner-case testing scenarios can be emulated using the mocking of scenarios that would otherwise be impossible or difficult to set up on the database.

One key lesson of this chapter was that unit testing requires an understanding of some other patterns...

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