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Mastering Apex Programming

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200920
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Battisson Paul Battisson
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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:

  • An overview of debugging on Salesforce
  • Using log levels when generating debug logs
  • The use of Salesforce Developer...
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