{"id":352,"date":"2016-03-22T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:45:20","slug":"habits-of-great-force-com-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/habits-of-great-force-com-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Habits of Great Force.com Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HabitsWant to become a “Great”\u00c2\u00a0Force.com Developer? One does not become a successful App developer just by training or mere experience. Many of our clients for whom we are developing the Appexchange Apps ask – “We want a Great Force.com Developer”. What makes a Force.com developer great? and other developer not so great. From our experience of over 100 person years of development we realized that to be successful or a great developer you have to learn from the best practices – and Force.com developers are no exception.<\/p>\n

There are some best practice habits that we have seen in all successful Force.com developers. In this post we will be listing\u00c2\u00a0these habits that make a developer – \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Force.com developer.<\/p>\n

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  1. They check if they can use declarative methods before starting to write code.<\/li>\n
  2. Successful Force.com developers keep the code simple by keeping it clean anc concise.<\/li>\n
  3. Do not put the SOQL queries in the loop otherwise it will hit the Salesforce.com limits. Developers should use Maps or relationships to have one SOQL query outside the for loop.<\/li>\n
  4. Use Maps to make SOQL queries, DML transactions, and Apex triggers more efficient<\/li>\n
  5. Use the object relationships to optimize the queries.<\/li>\n
  6. Avoid DML operations like insert, update, delete, undelete, merge inside the loop.<\/li>\n
  7. Bulkify the code to making sure the code properly handles more than one record at a time<\/li>\n
  8. Use utility or helper methods are efficiently written to handle collections of records. This will avoid unnecessarily executing inefficient queries and DML operations.<\/li>\n
  9. Use collections and streamlining the SOQL queries that will result in efficient Apex code and will avoid governor limits.<\/li>\n
  10. Use the Limits Apex Methods that can debug more effectively and Avoid Hitting Governor Limits.<\/li>\n
  11. Use only one trigger per object.<\/li>\n
  12. Keep the logic outside the trigger by calling the apex classes like a trigger handler. They use a Trigger Handler framework wherein the business logic is separated into a separate handler class.<\/li>\n
  13. Aim for 100% code coverage.<\/li>\n
  14. Write meaningful test classes and write them before you write the code and include all the conditions like null, boundary value etc.<\/li>\n
  15. Write test methods to verify the large datasets.<\/li>\n
  16. Do not hardcode Ids within the code.<\/li>\n
  17. Always have a justified reason before creating a Visualforce page instead of Standard UI.<\/li>\n
  18. Escape the URL parameters if they are present in code.<\/li>\n
  19. Try to develop code \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With Sharing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and have a justified reason if they are not doing so.<\/li>\n
  20. Use Custom settings for non-dynamic variables in code.<\/li>\n
  21. Clean any obsolete classes, properties or methods.<\/li>\n
  22. Always do exception handling for SOQL Queries and DML statements.<\/li>\n
  23. Follow Code & Naming standards.<\/li>\n
  24. Use the helper classes in batch apex use framework for logging DML results<\/li>\n
  25. When using Future methd (@future) they invoke it with a batch of records so that it is only invoked once for the records to process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These habits may be hard to form – but once they become a habit when you are developing – you are sure to become become a “Great”\u00c2\u00a0Force.com Developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Want to become a “Great”\u00c2\u00a0Force.com Developer? One does not become a successful App developer just by training or mere experience. Many of our clients for whom we are developing the Appexchange Apps ask – “We want a Great Force.com Developer”. What makes a Force.com developer great? and other developer not so great. From our experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[126,140],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-force-com","tag-force-com","tag-force-com-development","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}