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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 FREE CHAPTER
2. Salesforce Fundamentals 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

Writing Apex unit tests

A test class is the only class in Apex that can have a private access modifier. It always runs when you want to deploy any Apex code to a production environment using the default tests, or when you create a managed package. Due to the fact that unit tests, in principle, are not called from outside the class, you can define your test class with the private access modifier.

A test class is always written with the @IsTest annotation. In this type of class, you are able to define regular methods and test methods. For instance, if you want to create your test data in one method and run this method in each unit test, you are able to create a regular method in your test class where you create your data. The unit tests (methods to test your implementation code) are written in test methods. You are able to define your test methods in two ways:

  • The method has the...
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