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AutoRABIT & VS Code – Our Mission to Make Salesforce Development Easier

ERIC DRESHFIELD
June 12, 2020
11:57 AM

According to the Top 10 IDE Report, worldwide, Visual Studio is the most popular IDE, Visual Studio Code grew the most in the last 5 years (+6.4%), and Eclipse trailed off the most (-6.2%).

With the continuing popularity of VS Code as an IDE in the Salesforce developer community, AutoRABIT has created a plug-in for Visual Studio Code (VS Code). This capability now provides Salesforce Developers who are using VS Code to see the following benefits:

Collaborate easily with source control systems, application lifecycle systems, and Salesforce environments.

Streamline integration points between source control systems, application lifecycle systems, and Salesforce environments through commands and interfaces using existing AutoRABIT functionality.

Create a decentralized, distributed system that enables Salesforce teams to have a consistent view into the team’s usage of commits, stories, deployments, and CI/CD projects.

Improve adoption by Salesforce Developers of Salesforce DX by working simultaneously with the VS Code Salesforce extension.

What does Pre-Validation do?

Pre-Validation can generate a difference report between a change and a branch. Pre-validation can create a mock deployment request on a Salesforce org and run Apex Test Classes as part of that mock deployment. This is important because it can generate a code coverage report based on a change set. Pre-Validation can create an Apex PMD report and a Lightning Lint Report. All of this enables a peer-to-peer review and the ability to approve or reject the Pre-Validation based on results.

Here’s a look at the top use cases that the AutoRABIT VS Code plugin helps solve at launch.

Commit using a Pre-Validation Framework