Clean Apex Code: Software Design for Salesforce Developers

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P. GonzalezClean Apex Codehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1411-2_1

1. Refactoring Apex Code: First Steps

Pablo Gonzalez¹  

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Dublin, Ireland

 

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

—Martin Fowler

This chapter is a quick introduction to clean Apex code. We’ll start by looking at some sample code and then gradually improve it step by step.

A word of caution before we start: Do not expect perfectly clean code by the end of this chapter. We will not talk about dependency injection, mocks, modularity, or any advanced patterns. The purpose of this chapter is simply to get us into the right ...