Play by Play: Automated Code Analysis in Salesforce - a Tools Deep-Dive

In this course, you'll learn why code quality matters and how tools can help you and your team to ensure it. Two experts of Salesforce Code Analysis take you on a journey from concepts to practical tool usage.

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Lorenzo Frattini, Robert Sösemann and Don Robins discuss how teams can leverage existing Code Analysis tools to assess the quality of their existing codebase and make it an integral part of their development process. Along the way, we will get to know two famous tools in that space. The Open Source code analyzer PMD and the Cloud solution Clayton.io. By the end of this course, you will be able to decide which steps to take first towards better code quality in your projects. You will have a good understanding of the core concepts and the breadth and diversity of the tools available. You will understand how to use, customize and extends them.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Introduction and Setting the Stage 13mins
• Ensuring Code Quality 11mins
• Automated Code Analysis Techniques and Concepts 25mins
• Exploring PMD 14mins
• Exploring Clayton 13mins
• Creating Rules for Salesforce 26mins
• Integrating Code Analysis in Development Lifecycle 16mins
• ​Summary and Recap 9mins