Software Testing on the Salesforce Platform

Preface

About this Book

1. Style Guide
2. Example Code
3. Errors and Omissions
4. Feedback
5. Part One - A Testing Primer

Introduction

1. Software Testing
2. The Impact of Generative AI
3. Approaches to Testing
4. Types of Testing
5. Summary

Salesforce Test Framework

1. Overview
2. Apex Test Classes
3. Annotations
4. Identifying a Test Class
5. Identifying Test Methods
6. @IsTest Annotation Attributes
7. Public versus Private Test Classes
8. Test Data
9. Test Data Setup
10. Test Execution Demarcation
11. Verification
12. Masquerading as another User
13. Exposing the Implementation
14. Detecting Test Context
15. Parallel versus Serial Test Execution
16. Summary

Unit Testing

1. Overview
2. Benefits of Unit Testing
3. Unit Tests are not Free
4. Unit Tests are not a Silver Bullet
5. Anatomy of a Unit Test
6. Testing the Platform
7. Test Doubles
8. Techniques for Identifying Test Cases
9. Summary
10. Part Two - Testing Apex

Plain Old Apex Code

1. Static Utility Methods
2. Stateless Apex Class With Dependency
3. Stateful Apex Class
4. Summary

Platform Managed Apex Code

1. Apex Triggers
2. Asynchronous Apex Overview
3. Future Methods
4. Batch Apex
5. Scheduled Apex
6. Apex REST
7. Summary
8. Part Three - Executing Tests
9. Before you Execute Tests

Executing Tests via the User Interface

1. Setup Menu
2. Developer Console
3. Summary

Executing Tests via Salesforce Developer Tools

1. The Salesforce Command Line Interface
2. Visual Studio Code
3. API
4. Apex
5. Summary
6. Part Four - Integration Testing

Apex Integration Testing (Developer Preview)

1. Overview
2. Annotations
3. Anatomy of an Integration Test
4. Testing Field History Tracking
5. Testing Agentforce
6. Executing Integration Tests
7. Integration Test Environment
8. Summary
9. Part Five - Advanced Testing

Mutation Testing

1. Mutation Testing Overview
2. The Mechanics of Mutation Testing
3. Why Mutation Testing Works
4. Mutation Testing in Practice
5. When a mutant survives
6. The Human Oracle Problem
7. When to Apply Mutation Testing
8. Summary

Property-Based Testing

1. Overview
2. The Mechanics of Property-Based Testing
3. Property-Based Testing in Practice
4. The Human Judgement Problem
5. When to Apply Property-based Testing
6. Summary

Differential Testing

1. Overview
2. Differential Testing in Practice
3. The Reference Implementation Problem
4. When to Apply Differential Testing
5. Summary

Growth Testing, or Testing How Code Scales

1. Overview
2. Big O Notation
3. Growth Testing in Practice
4. When to Apply Growth Testing
5. Summary