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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

Invoking Apex to execute anonymously versus unit tests

So far, you've learned the basics about testing your Apex code and how you need to test an external call to a web service. You also learned that testing must use test data (and not real data) and that the data in these test scenarios isn't really submitted to your real database. After the execution of your test scenario, the data that's created for your test will be removed from memory. But what if you want to test and add data to your database? You have the Execute Anonymous Window for this. Hopefully, you remember this functionality from when we started with Apex in Chapter 4, Apex Basics. We used this functionality to write our first piece of code.

With this functionality, we can invoke classes and methods that are declared as a public or global class. The same is possible in a unit test, but the data isn...

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