Composing an Apex Test Class
Before we can deploy the Apex Controller class AccountSearchController, which we created in the Developing an Apex Controller to search for accounts recipe, to the production environment, at least 75% of the Apex code must be covered by unit tests, and all of those tests must complete successfully.
Writing unit tests for Apex code is a necessary activity when developing code in the Salesforce platform, and a mandatory requirement before you are able to deploy the code into a Salesforce production environment.
The purpose of the unit tests is to ensure that 75% of the lines of code, as a minimum, have been covered by the unit tests. You should, however, strive to write unit tests that cover every logical path of your code, including any error handling, to achieve 100% code coverage.
How to do it...
Carry out the following steps to create an Apex test class, that provides unit test coverage for our Apex Controller, using the Salesforce Developer Console:
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