Debug and Deployment Tools in Salesforce

Development Tools In Salesforce

1. Developer Edition Environment

You may start designing and testing your software-as-a-service application right now in this online environment.

Designed for small organisations who need to get a CRM system up and running quickly. It comes with easy-to-follow walkthroughs and a setup assistance to help you get started, as well as an intuitive user interface and administration tools to help you adapt your deployment as you develop.

2. Scratch Organizations

The scratch org is a source-driven, disposable Salesforce code and metadata deployment. A scratch org is completely customizable, allowing developers to simulate several Salesforce editions with varying features and preferences.

During the development process, Scratch orgs encourage developer productivity and collaboration.

3. Static Code Analysis

While the IDEA/Illuminated Cloud combination provides good code analysis, PMD APEX can improve it even more (running from IDEA).

Static code analysis enhances programme quality in general, but it's especially crucial when creating AppExchange packages: PMD APEX can significantly minimise the amount of time spent passing the Force.com code scanner and Salesforce engineers' inspection.

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4. Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

One of the most crucial decisions is which IDE to use, as this is where developers would spend the majority of their time. IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition) with the Illuminated Cloud plugin is our top pick as of this writing. They make it possible to:

Completion of SOQL Queries with Concurrent Connection to Multiple Organizations

APEX with syntax highlighting and code completion (both anonymous and for developing classes).

Step-by-step debugging

Using the IDE to run tests

Deployments of files from the IDE

Inspection of the static code

5. Developer Console

The Developer Console is a set of tools for creating, editing, debugging, and testing apps that you may access from within your Salesforce organisation.

For SOSL search results that contain multiple objects, each object is displayed in a separate tab.

6. Ant Migration Rule

The Ant Migration Tool is a command-line utility that moves metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce organisation using Java/Ant.

7. Workbench

This robust, web-based toolkit allows administrators and developers to communicate with Salesforce organisations via the Salesforce APIs. Workbench has strong support for the Force.com Partner, Bulk, Rest, Streaming, Metadata, and Apex APIs, allowing users to define, query, manipulate, and migrate both data and metadata in Salesforce.com organisations using a simple and straightforward user interface.

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Debugging Tools

1. Set Checkpoints in Apex Code

Checkpoints in the Developer Console can be used to debug Apex classes and triggers. Checkpoints aren't possible with Visualforce markup.

Until you click Debug --> Clear Checkpoint Locations, checkpoints will remain.

Checkpoints can be used to look into the objects in memory at a certain point in time and discover what other objects are referencing them.

If you use the @future annotation to set a checkpoint in a method, you must maintain the Developer Console open until the @future function finishes asynchronously.