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title: Quality Clouds Salesforce Best Practice Rules
description: "## Best practice categories In order to provide a comprehensive view of the overall quality of your Salesforce Org, Quality Clouds checks for best practices at three different levels: ## Salesforce best practices These include the following rule sets: -…"
url: "https://community-staging.qualityclouds.com/qcdocs/qcr/rules/qualityclouds-salesforce-best-practice-rules/"
updated: "2025-03-21"
category: Rules
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# Quality Clouds Salesforce Best Practice Rules

## Best practice categories

In order to provide a comprehensive view of the overall quality of your Salesforce Org, Quality Clouds checks for best practices at three different levels:

## Salesforce best practices

These include the following rule sets:

- [Apex Page rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/configuration-elements/apex-page-rules/)
- [Org Configuration rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/configuration-elements/org-configuration-rules/)
- [Object rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/configuration-elements/object-rules/)
- [Profiles rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/configuration-elements/profiles-rules/)

## Quality Clouds defined best practices

These include the following rule sets:

- [Code duplication best practices](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/salesforce-best-practice-rules/code-duplication-best-practices/)
- [GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) best practices](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/salesforce-best-practice-rules/gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-best-practices/)

## PMD best practices

These include the following rule sets:

- [PMD - Apex Class rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/pmd-rules/pmd-apex-class-rules/)
- [PMD - Lightning rules](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/pmd-rules/pmd-lightning-rules/)