SmartFactory dynamically creates test data hierarchies with all required fields and relationships pre-populated for Salesforce.com.
How often have you wasted hours reverse-engineering a new schema just to create data for a unit test?
Task__c testTask = new Task__c();
ERROR: Field Desciption__c required on Task__c
Task__c testTask = new Task__c(Description__c = 'Create unit test data');`
ERROR: Lookup relationship Project__c required on Task__c`
Project__c testProject = new Project__c();
Task__c testTask = new Task__c(Project__c = testProject, Description__c = 'Create unit test data');
ERROR: Field Status__c required on Project__c
...
Watch SmartFactory dynamically use the Describe metadata to populate all required fields with valid data and create any related objects:
Task__c testTask = (Task__c)SmartFactory.createSObject('Task__c');
The Evolution of Test Data provides more background on the problem and SmartFactory's solution.
SmartFactory's first version won the Mavens Consulting 2011 Hackathon in less than a single day of coding.
For easy, 1-click installation: SmartFactory Unmanaged Package (sandbox)
To use the source code with a Salesforce org: GitHub Salesforce Deploy Tool
To prevent the large number of system calls from filling your debug log, you can set logging filter overrides for the SmartFactory class: Setup - Develop - Apex Classes - SmartFactory - Log Filters - System = NONE.
Just use SmartFactory in your tests to create objects:
Account account = (Account)SmartFactory.createSObject('Account');
To cascade and create objects for lookup and master-detail relationships:
Contact contact = (Contact)SmartFactory.createSObject('Contact', true);
The same syntax is used for custom objects:
Custom_Object__c customObject = (Custom_Object__c)SmartFactory.createSObject('Custom_Object__c');
See SmartFactory_Test for additional examples.
To set specific values to pass your custom Validation Rules, wrap SmartFactory with your own class like this:
public class TestObjectFactory {
public static Account createAccount() {
Account account = (Account)SmartFactory.createSObject('Account');
account.Customer_Terms__c = 'Net 30';
return account;
}
}You can then call that reusable method from your tests. If you have validation rules on Account or Contact, you may also need to modify SmartFactory_Test.
TODO comments note areas for additional development. Key areas include:
- Provide an field override map that allows callers to specify default values for specific objects and fields
- Provide a recursion limit for lookups to the same object type
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