14. Unit Testing | David Reed

Unit testing is an important programming skill but often times underestimated by programmers. David Reed shares what unit tests are and how to create good unit tests in Apex to guarantee production code quality.

Main Points

1. 75% code coverage in Salesforce Apex
2. Unit testing definition
3. Unit test v.s. Integration test
4. Mocking in unit test
5. 5 Unit test scenarios to create good unit tests: 1) positive 2) single record 3) bulkified records 4) negative 5) no action
6. Unit tests as the documentation
7. Lines of unit test should be more than production code
8. How to create good unit tests in Salesforce
9. Test Driven Development (TDD)

Links

• David’s twitter handler
• David’s home page
• David’s github  
• PMD Code Analysis Tool