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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
Book Image

Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By: Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning Platform, used to build enterprise apps, is being increasingly adopted by admins, business analysts, consultants, architects, and especially developers. With this Salesforce certification, you'll be able to enhance your development skills and become a valuable member of your organization. This certification guide is designed to be completely aligned with the official exam study guide for the latest Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I release and includes updates from Spring '19. Starting with Salesforce fundamentals and performing data modeling and management, you’ll progress to automating logic and processes and working on user interfaces with Salesforce components. Finally, you'll learn how to work with testing frameworks, perform debugging, and deploy metadata, and get to grips with useful tips and tricks. Each chapter concludes with sample questions that are commonly found in the exam, and the book wraps up with mock tests to help you prepare for the DEV501 certification exam. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to take the exam and earn your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I certification.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
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Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
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Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
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Mock Tests

Executing test classes

When we write unit tests, we need to find out whether they pass or not. We need to execute the unit test and evaluate the result of it. If the test passes, everything runs fine. If the test fails, you need to find out why the test fails. Did you create the correct data? Is the result not the expected result? Maybe there's a scenario you didn't take into account while you were developing your code?

Let's look at how we can execute our code.

You can execute unit tests via your favorite IDE (VS Code , which is short for Visual Studio Code; IntelliJ with Illuminated Cloud; and Welkin Suite have built-in testing tools so that you can execute your unit tests), but you can also use your Developer Console.

Let's look at how we can execute our test method in the Developer Console:

  1. To start a unit test, open your Developer Console and click on...