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  • Prachi

    Member
    August 22, 2019 at 4:48 am

    Hi,

    Unit Testing in Salesforce
    Testing is a key and critical component to successful long term software development process. Salesforce.com strongly recommends using a test-driven development process which occurs at the same time as code development. Salesforce has very strong set of documentation. When I was learning salesforce unit testing, I realize that it is difficult to understand where to start read. Therefore, I summarized the unit testing for salesforce beginners to understand the basic aspects of unit testing.

    There are few things to consider before you deploy or upload the code or package;75% of your Apex code must be covered by unit tests
    All the tests must complete successfully
    Every trigger has some test coverage (1%)
    All classes and triggers must compile successfully
    When you are writing a test class, you have to write test for Single Action, Bulk Action, Positive Behavior, Negative Behavior, and Restricted User.
    Single Action :Test to verify that a single record produces the correct, expected result.
    Bulk Action :  Test not only the single record case, but the bulk cases as well
    Positive Behavior :  Verify that the expected behavior occurs through every expected permutation
    Negative Behavior :  Verify that the error messages are correctly produced
    Restricted User :Test whether a user with restricted access to the sObjects used in     your code sees the expected behavior
    Test Class can be defined @isTest annotation. Before the Winter 12’ release we had only private test classes, but on Winter 12’ release salesforce has given the chance to write public test classes as well. Salesforce has released the public test classes for expose common methods for data creation. It can be used to setting up data that the tests need to run against. Public test methods can be called from a running test but not from a non-test request.

    When you create a test method,

    1.Use static
    2.Use testMethod keyword
    3.Use void return type
    4.No any arguments
    5.No data changes performed in a test method
    6.Don’t send emails

    Thanks.

  • Achintya

    Member
    August 22, 2019 at 4:49 am

    Testing is a key and critical component to successful long term software development process. Salesforce.com strongly recommends using a test-driven development process which occurs at the same time as code development. Salesforce has a very strong set of documentation. When I was learning salesforce unit testing, I realize that it is difficult to understand where to start reading. Therefore, I summarized the unit testing for salesforce beginners to understand the basic aspects of unit testing.

    There are few things to consider before you deploy or upload the code or package;75% of your Apex code must be covered by unit tests
    All the tests must complete successfully
    Every trigger has some test coverage (1%)
    All classes and triggers must compile successfully
    When you are writing a test class, you have to write a test for Single Action, Bulk Action, Positive Behavior, Negative Behavior, and Restricted User.
    Single Action: Test to verify that a single record produces the correct, expected result.
    Bulk Action: Test not only the single record case but the bulk cases as well
    Positive Behavior: Verify that the expected behavior occurs through every expected permutation
    Negative Behavior: Verify that the error messages are correctly produced
    Restricted User: Test whether a user with restricted access to the sobjects used in your code sees the expected behavior
    Test Class can be defined as @isTest annotation. Before the Winter 12’ release we had only private test classes, but on Winter 12’ release salesforce has given the chance to write public test classes as well. Salesforce has released public test classes for exposing common methods for data creation. It can be used to set up data that the tests need to run against. Public test methods can be called from a running test but not from a non-test request.

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