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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)

Optimizing and refactoring existing triggers

While ChatGPT is a powerful tool, it’s not a replacement for formal code review processes, dedicated linting tools, or Salesforce’s built-in development tools. Instead, it acts as a complementary resource to augment your development workflow and improve code quality. ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for Salesforce developers in several ways to ensure and improve the quality of their code. In this section, we will review the following two ways:

  • Best practices:
    • Guidance: If you’re unsure whether a particular approach aligns with Salesforce’s best practices, ChatGPT can provide insights and suggestions
    • Patterns and anti-patterns: You can inquire about common design patterns and anti-patterns specific to Salesforce development
  • Performance optimization:
    • Query optimization: ChatGPT can provide suggestions on how to optimize SOQL queries to avoid governor limits and improve performance
    • Bulkification: Ensure your...