Salesforce daily archive
730 days of practical thinking.
One retrospective note for every day from 2 September 2024 to 1 September 2026.
Archive dates organise the subject history. They do not claim the notes were originally published on those dates.
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Testing the business outcome: API version discipline
API versions influence behaviour and should move through the estate as a managed engineering decision. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Flow and Apex boundaries
Declarative and programmatic automation are complementary when their responsibilities are explicit. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Salesforce code review
Code review is an architectural control as well as a defect check. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Application logging
Logs should describe business context and decision points, not produce an unstructured stream of debug statements. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Custom metadata as configuration
Custom metadata can move controlled business variation out of code and into deployable configuration. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Security enforcement in Apex
Apex can execute with privileges that require developers to enforce the intended access model deliberately. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Test data design
Good test data communicates the business scenario and remains independent of org state. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Meaningful Apex tests
Tests should protect business behaviour and failure handling, not merely raise coverage percentage. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Bulk-safe code
Salesforce transactions may process many records even when the original change appears singular. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Selective SOQL
Query design must reflect data distribution and access paths, not only functional correctness. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Lightning component boundaries
A Lightning Web Component should own a coherent interaction rather than accumulate an entire business process. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Asynchronous Apex
Queueable, batch and scheduled work solve different execution and scale requirements. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Trigger discipline
Triggers should coordinate record-change behaviour without becoming a hidden application framework. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Apex service layers
A service layer gives business operations a stable home outside triggers, controllers and transport-specific code. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Integration observability
A connected process needs end-to-end visibility across platform and team boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Platform limits as architecture
Governor limits encourage efficient multi-tenant design and must influence architecture from the beginning. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Data virtualisation
External data can sometimes remain in its source while Salesforce presents it at the point of work. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Transaction boundaries
Cross-system work cannot rely on one database transaction to guarantee an all-or-nothing outcome. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Idempotent integrations
A request may be delivered more than once; a dependable receiver must make repetition safe. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Error recovery
Failure handling is part of the business process, not a technical appendix added after the happy path. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: API boundaries
An API should expose a stable business capability rather than mirror a database or a single user interface. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Customer identity across systems
Identity resolution is the foundation of a coherent customer view across Salesforce and connected platforms. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Master data decisions
A connected estate needs a clear answer to which system is authoritative for each important business fact. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
Read daily noteTesting the business outcome: Event-driven Salesforce
Events allow systems to announce meaningful change without controlling every downstream reaction. This retrospective daily note considers how tests can prove user and operational behaviour rather than implementation detail.
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