In previous posts, we looked at how to set up SonarCloud code analysis for Salesforce using automatic analysis, as well as GitHub Actions to trigger scans from a CI job. Show the results of code analysis once changes are merged to a shared branch is great, but ideally develops are […]
In the previous SonarCloud post, we looked at how to set up SonarCloud code analysis for Salesforce using automatic analysis, as well as GitHub Actions to trigger scans from a CI job. If you want to include Apex test code coverage in the SonarCloud dashboard then running the scan from […]
SonarCloud is the hosted offering of SonarQube, provided by SonarSource. In this post we will look at how to run a Sonar code quality scan on a Salesforce project using automatic analysis and GitHub Actions. The example in this post is focused on Apex classes and triggers, but SonarCloud also […]
Veracode is a leading provider of application security testing products. Veracode recently added support for Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components and Aura components to its static code analysis product. Veracode provides three solutions for scanning code: an IDE plugin called Greenlight, a development pipeline option called Pipeline Scan, and a […]
In this post we will compare five free tools for working with data in the Salesforce CRM (aka lightning) platform. We will begin by identifying common features, such as exploring the schema, building queries and executing anonymous Apex scripts. We will then provide an overview of the tools and compare […]
A few years ago, I created a series of posts that explored the capabilities and limitations of various data visualization tools when embedded in Salesforce. Since then there have been some exciting updates to Tableau Online as well as to the native integration capabilities between Salesforce and Tableau. This post […]
This is the second post in a two-part series on how to use Azure Data Studio and Flyway as part of managing a PostgreSQL database pipeline on Heroku. In this post, we will focus on using Flyway to migrate changes to the database schema. Prerequisites Complete the steps in the […]
I use VS Code for most of my application development work. For SQL development, I wanted to try Azure Data Studio, which is a sort of sister product to VS Code for database development and management. This post is an example of how to use Azure Data Studio and Flyway […]
Last month I had the opportunity to contribute to the Salesforce.org community sprint and worked on the Test Data Generation project. I mainly worked with Patrick McNeal on a sample Snowfakery recipe for higher education. Snowfakery is an open source tool from Salesforce.org that creates fake data with relationships and […]
Roughly a year ago, I wrote about using VS Code with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Salesforce development. There have been some notable changes since then, including WSL 2, VS Code remote development and the Windows Terminal, which have significantly simplified the approach. Previously, project files were typically […]