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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
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Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

Automated regression testing

While Apex and Lightning Web Components tests are very much key tools for monitoring regressions in your application, the limitations and scope of the functionality such tests can cover are small by design, since they are unit tests, not integration tests. Thus, they are not particularly suited to performing large data volume or full end-to-end user interface testing.

The preceding pipeline configuration creates only one scratch org with a given configuration. You can, of course, create multiple scratch orgs of different org types and feature configurations to perform different kinds of testing. For example, a scratch org with and without the Multi-Currency feature enabled.

Here are some considerations for implementing further testing approaches:

  • It is possible to execute the Apex code from shell scripts using the approach described earlier in this chapter when we populated the scratch org with sample data by calling the...