A Library To Mock SObject Records
If you plan to write solid unit tests in Salesforce, you won't get around mocking sobjects. A solid testing strategy needs a powerful library to mock sobject records. This allows you to write loosely coupled tests without the need to insert records into the database....
Solve „Unable To Lock Row“ Error In Tests
There seems to be a soft limit for E2E tests in Salesforce. Once you hit it, your tests will start to fail with the dreaded "unable to lock row" exception. This is one of the nastiest errors you can encounter, especially in tests. It's hard to debug and even harder to...
Salesforce SFDX CI With Rollback On Fail
There is one thing I love most about SFDX: The possibility to automatically rollback, if your continuous integration (CI) pipeline fails. This greatly decreases the probability for your developers to break your build pipeline. As a result, they are less likely having...
How Many Apex Triggers Per Object?
I recently came across a stone-old question: How many apex triggers per object are a best practice? Is the "single apex trigger per object" dogma still en vogue after the introduction of SFDX? Why Are Multiple Apex Triggers Per Object Considered Bad? A quick research...
Why Makes It SCRUM So Hard To Build High-Quality Software?
So we recently started to SCRUM, and I love it. However, during our first sprints, I noticed something I did not expect: I and my team suddenly felt pressured to deploy low-quality software. That was particularly weird to experience because SCRUM was sold to me as a...
Prettier for SFDX: Format Apex and LWC
Prettier is essential for professional software developers. It is more than just a code-formatter, it is an opinionated code-formatter. I will spare you the repetition of the discussion whether this is good or bad and cut straight to the point: How to add Prettier to...
5 Signs You Suck At Testing Apex
This is a rant full of sarcasm. Reader discretion advised. However, if you believe that "customers won't pay for quality" and that "testing your apex code slows you down" this text is for you. You are part of the problem. In the last couple of years, I have had the...
Source Management in SFDX Teil 3: CI mit CircleCI
Dieser Post ist Teil 3 meiner Serie „Source Management in SFDX“. In den ersten beiden Teilen habe ich die Anforderungen analysiert, ein Konzept vorgestellt und ein Template entwickelt. In diesem Teil zeige ich, wie ich mit SFDX eine Continuous Integration (CI)...
Visualforce Dynamic Component In Action
I recently had to integrate our USA and our Switzerland subsidiaries in our quoting tool. This tool, so far, used a fairly hard-coded visualforce page with some static stylesheets to generate a DIN 5008 (Type A) letter quote. While our Swiss subsidiary only required...
Source Management in SFDX Teil 2: Ordnerstruktur und Prozesse
Dieser Post ist Teil 2 meiner Serie "Source Management in SFDX". Im ersten Teil habe ich die Anforderungen an eine Source Management Strategie analysiert und das 1:1:1-Setup vorgestellt. In diesem Teil gehe ich auf die Ordnerstruktur des 1:1:1-Setup für SFDX ein und...
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Ich arbeite seit mehreren Jahren als IT Manager, Administrator und Developer mit der Salesforce Plattform. Hier blogge ich ganz privat über (für mich) spannende Themen aus meinem Berufsalltag.