TestVisible annotation in Salesforce

TestVisible annotation allow test methods to access private or protected members of another class outside the test class. These members include methods, member variables, and inner classes. This annotation enables a more permissive access level for running tests only. This annotation doesn’t change the visibility of members if accessed by non-test classes.

With this annotation, you don’t have to change the access modifiers of your methods and member variables to public if you want to access them in a test method. For example, if a private member variable isn’t supposed to be exposed to external classes but it should be accessible by a test method, you can add the TestVisible annotation to the variable definition.

This example shows how to annotate a private class member variable and private method with TestVisible and how to access it in test class.

Sample Class:

public class TestVisibleExample {
    //Private member variable
    @TestVisible private static Integer recordNumber = 1;

    //Private method
    @TestVisible private static void updateRecord(String name) {
        // Do something
    }
}    

Test Class:

@isTest
private class TestVisibleExampleTest {
    @isTest static void test1() {
        // Access private variable annotated with TestVisible
        Integer i = TestVisibleExample.recordNumber;
        System.assertEquals(1, i);

        // Access private method annotated with TestVisible
        TestVisibleExample.updateRecord('RecordName');
        // Perform some verification
    }
}