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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463685
Length 504 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Leveraging Platform Features 3. Application Storage 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 5. Application Service Layer 6. Application Domain Layer 7. Application Selector Layer 8. User Interface 9. Lightning 10. Providing Integration and Extensibility 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 12. Unit Testing 13. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Automated regression testing

While Apex tests are very much a key tool in monitoring regressions in your application, the limitations and scope of functionality they can test is small, particularly to perform volume or user interface testing (clients using JavaScript for example).

Note

You might wonder why the Ant script used by Jenkins deploys twice, as the check deploy to the packaging org will confirm whether the Apex code compiles and that all Apex tests complete successfully. The reason is that having the build org deployed with the latest build allows for it to go on to be used for other purposes, such as executing further regression testing steps.

Here are some considerations to implement further testing approaches:

  • It is possible to execute the Apex code from the Ant scripts using the approach described earlier in this chapter, when we populated the developer org with sample data by calling the SeasonService.createTestSeason method. You can extend this approach by using loop constructs...
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