You're reading from Mastering Apex Programming A developer's guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200920

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Apex

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Paul Battisson

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Triggers, Testing, and Security

2. Chapter 1: Common Apex Mistakes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Debugging Apex

4. Chapter 3: Triggers and Managing Trigger Execution

5. Chapter 4: Exceptions and Exception Handling

6. Chapter 5: Testing Apex Code

7. Chapter 6: Secure Apex Programming

8. Section 2 – Asynchronous Apex and Apex REST

9. Chapter 7: Utilizing Future Methods

10. Chapter 8: Working with Batch Apex

11. Chapter 9: Working with Queueable Apex

12. Chapter 10: Scheduling Apex Jobs

13. Chapter 11: Using Platform Events

14. Chapter 12: Apex REST and Custom Web Services

15. Section 3 – Apex Performance

16. Chapter 13: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits

17. Chapter 14: Performance Profiling

18. Chapter 15: Improving Apex Performance

19. Chapter 16: Performance and Application Architectures

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Chapter 2: Debugging Apex

In this chapter, I want to discuss the process of debugging your Apex code and finding errors. In the previous chapter, we saw how we can prevent common Apex mistakes, but there will still be instances and examples where we have errors or issues that we will need to debug within our solution. The focus here is on the process of debugging and using the tools provided to their maximum, rather than debugging a particular problem itself. Code bugs come in all shapes and sizes, and if the Salesforce Developer Community forums and Salesforce StackExchange are any indication, a never-ending book of fixing particular errors could be written. By focusing on improving and streamlining your debugging process, you should be able to find and resolve any issues more rapidly in the future.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter: