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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

You're reading from   Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide Expert tips, techniques, and mock tests for the Platform Developer I (DEV501) certification exam

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802078
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jan Vandevelde Jan Vandevelde
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Gunther Roskams Gunther Roskams
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
2. Salesforce Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Data Modeling and Management 4. Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
5. Declarative Automation 6. Apex Basics 7. Apex - Beyond the Basics 8. The Salesforce User Interface 9. Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
10. Testing in Salesforce 11. Debugging and Deployment Tools 12. Mock Tests 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Executing test classes

When we write unit tests, we need to find out whether they pass or not. We need to execute the unit test and evaluate the result of it. If the test passes, everything runs fine. If the test fails, you need to find out why the test fails. Did you create the correct data? Is the result not the expected result? Maybe there's a scenario you didn't take into account while you were developing your code?

Let's look at how we can execute our code.

You can execute unit tests via your favorite IDE (VS Code , which is short for Visual Studio Code; IntelliJ with Illuminated Cloud; and Welkin Suite have built-in testing tools so that you can execute your unit tests), but you can also use your Developer Console.

Let's look at how we can execute our test method in the Developer Console:

  1. To start a unit test, open your Developer Console and click on...
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