Salesforce made me a Better Programmer:

Hi All,

Salesforce made me a Better Programmer:

I started my career 5 years back with .Net. All my college projects were also in .Net. I am working on salesforce for last four years. When I started working on salesforce I was a bit afraid specially of governor limits.  But soon I realize that these limits are friend not foe.

Governor Limits Friend not Foe: When I faced too many SOQL, too many dml or to many query rows I thought why there are such limits. But when I started using collections for resolving them soon I realized these limits are for my help. Now it has become a general practice for me to take care of these limits. Now If I look back to my code that I developed in .Net applications I would definitely write efficient code to improve performance. Use of collections for performance is something I learned because of Governor Limits.  

Test Class Coverage is to make things easy: When we first time created a Managed package and did a runAll tset first time. We got around 75 test failures and 60% code coverage. Our initial thought was why is it necessary when we have already tested the functionality and QA has passed it. It took next 4-5 days to fix those test methods and improve code coverage. In those 5 days we not only changed the test methods but also changed our APEX Code as well as there were some issues those we missed to figure out in our testing. That was the first benefit that we discovered of test methods but It was just start. When we found that after any bug fix in regression testing or after any enhancement we just needed to run the test and we saved so much effort. Now it has become a practice for us that we like to follow to write test cases covering all scenarios. And let me tell you that when we see this “All Test Success” and Code Coverage 100% , It’s a great feeling.

There are so many other reasons that could be made here. My conclusion on all is that Limits in Salesforce has never stopped me from doing anything but have made me to think for a better way. And that is why I have started this blog to help the people if I can.

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