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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)

Setting up web services with ChatGPT’s aid

Consider the following simple example of a user story that allows an external inventory system to update stock levels.

User Story – integrate Salesforce with an external inventory system:

  • Goal: As a backend developer, I want to create a web service in Salesforce so that the external inventory management system can update Salesforce whenever an item’s stock level changes.
  • Acceptance criteria:
    • Given the external inventory management system has an update to the stock level of an item
    • When the external system sends a POST request with the updated stock level and item ID
    • Then the Salesforce web service should update the corresponding record in the Product object with the new stock level
    • Given the external system sends an invalid Item ID or stock level
    • When the Salesforce web service receives the request

Then the web service should respond with a proper error message and HTTP status code indicating the issue...