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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.

Intermediate
2h 12m
(11)

Created by Don Robins , Lorenzo Frattini and Robert Sösemann

Last Updated Jul 08, 2022

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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.

Intermediate
2h 12m
(11)

Created by Don Robins , Lorenzo Frattini and Robert Sösemann

Last Updated Jul 08, 2022

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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.

Play by Play: Automated Code Analysis in Salesforce - a Tools Deep-Dive
Intermediate
2h 12m
(11)
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Don Robins - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Automated Code Analysis in Salesforce - a Tools Deep-Dive
Don Robins
52 courses 4.5 author rating 1549 ratings

Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing

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Lorenzo Frattini - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Automated Code Analysis in Salesforce - a Tools Deep-Dive
Lorenzo Frattini
1 courses 4.9 author rating 11 ratings

Lorenzo is a London-based Salesforce Certified Technical Architect and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Clayton, a code analysis SaaS that specialises in vulnerability scanning and code quality for Salesforce. Lorenzo has spent a large part of his Salesforce career working on complex CRM implementations and advising on development methodologies. He is an agile enthusiast and has a passion for automating things.

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Robert Sösemann - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Automated Code Analysis in Salesforce - a Tools Deep-Dive
Robert Sösemann
2 courses 4.7 author rating 27 ratings

Robert Sösemann is a Germany-based software developer and experienced Salesforce expert. He is well-known for building the Open-Source Code Analyzer PMD for Apex. He blogs, tweets and speaks at conferences about Developer Agility and Clean Code. Although a Computer Science alumni, he didn't start his career coding. After managing Software teams for some years, he rediscovered his love of programming in the Salesforce ecosystem and has never been happier. Robert works as Principal Architect for the Salesforce PDO Partner logicline where he helps customers get their product ideas into the AppExchange faster.

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