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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Automated regression testing


While Apex tests are very much a key tool in monitoring regressions in your application, the limitations and scope of functionality they can test is small, particularly to perform volume or user interface testing (clients using JavaScript for example).

Note

You might wonder why the Ant script used by Jenkins deploys twice, as the check deploy to the packaging org will confirm whether the Apex code compiles and that all Apex tests complete successfully. The reason is that having the build org deployed with the latest build allows for it to go on to be used for other purposes, such as executing further regression testing steps.

Here are some considerations to implement further testing approaches:

  • It is possible to execute the Apex code from the Ant scripts using the approach described earlier in this chapter, when we populated the developer org with sample data by calling the SeasonService.createTestSeason method. You can extend this approach by using loop constructs...