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ChatGPT for Accelerating Salesforce Development

By : Andy Forbes, Philip Safir, Joseph Kubon, Francisco Fálder
Book Image

ChatGPT for Accelerating Salesforce Development

By: Andy Forbes, Philip Safir, Joseph Kubon, Francisco Fálder

Overview of this book

ChatGPT for Salesforce Development is an indispensable guide for Salesforce business analysts, developers, testers, and product owners seeking to integrate ChatGPT into their workflow. This book delves into the intricacies of Salesforce design, configuration, coding, and testing, demonstrating how ChatGPT can simplify complex setups and enhance project team efficiency. With this book, you’ll unlock the effective use of ChatGPT for crafting user stories that align seamlessly with project goals, learn how to design and implement Salesforce flows, and quickly write clear, comprehensive, and high-quality project documentation. As you advance, you’ll leverage ChatGPT to write new Apex code, decipher existing code, and explore the development of web services and callouts. This book spans trigger creation and the development of Lightning Web Components (LWC), highlighting how these can accelerate the development process. Applying ChatGPT's debugging capabilities, you’ll swiftly identify and resolve Salesforce issues to uphold the integrity and performance of your Salesforce applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be adept at integrating ChatGPT at every stage of Salesforce project delivery, from initial configuration to final testing.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Technical requirements

When embarking on the journey of writing Salesforce Apex, the choice of development tools and environment is critical to productivity and success. Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary programming language, is designed to execute on Lightning Platform and requires a robust set of tools to manage its life cycle, from development to deployment.

At the core of the Apex development toolkit is the Salesforce integrated development environment (IDE). The most prominent and widely used IDE is Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with the Salesforce Extension Pack. This pack, officially endorsed by Salesforce, equips developers with features such as syntax highlighting, auto-completion, integrated testing, and debugging capabilities. It also provides direct deployment to Salesforce orgs and version control integration, which are indispensable for maintaining code quality and collaboration. Developers can leverage VS Code’s powerful source code editor and customization...