Scheduled Apex

scheduledMonthly.java

/**
* To schedule the monthly reconciliation:
*    NOTE: It should run at midnight on the first of every month on it's own, but if you make
*    changes and need to requeue run the command below from the developer's console
*
*    scheduledMonthly.scheduleIt();
*/

global class scheduledMonthly implements Schedulable {
    public static String CRON_EXP = '0 0 0 1 * ? *';

    /**
    * Static method used to schedule the default reconciliation
    *
    * @return The jobId from the scheduled run
    */
    global static String scheduleIt() {
        scheduledMonthly sm = new scheduledMonthly();
        return System.schedule('Monthly Reconciliation', CRON_EXP, sm);
    }

    /**
    * Builds up all of the new Monthly Reconciliations and Distributions
    *
    * @param sc The schedulable context
    */
    global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) {
        RecordType rt = [
            select Id
            from RecordType
            where DeveloperName = 'Recipient'
        ];

        List<MyObject__c> objectList = new List<MyObject__c>();

        //Get all of the accounts of type 'Recipient'
        for (Account account: [
            select Id
            from Account
            where RecordTypeId = :rt.Id
        ]) {
            objectList.add(new MyObject__c(
                Account__c = account.Id
            ));
        }

        if (!objectList.isEmpty()) {
            insert objectList;
        }
    }
}

scheduledMonthly_template.java

global class scheduledMonthly implements Schedulable {
    /**
    * Builds up all of the new Objects
    *
    * @param sc The schedulable context
    */
    global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) {
        //Code goes here
    }
}

scheduledMonthly_withcode.java

global class scheduledMonthly implements Schedulable {
    /**
    * Builds up all of the new Objects
    *
    * @param sc The schedulable context
    */
    global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) {
        RecordType rt = [
            select Id
            from RecordType
            where DeveloperName = 'Recipient'
        ];

        List<MyObject__c> objectList = new List<MyObject__c>();

        //Get all of the accounts of type 'Recipient'
        for (Account account: [
            select Id
            from Account
            where RecordTypeId = :rt.Id
        ]) {
            objectList.add(new MyObject__c(
                Account__c = account.Id
            ));
        }

        if (!objectList.isEmpty()) {
            insert objectList;
        }
    }
}

scheduledMonthlyTest.java

@isTest
class scheduledMonthlyTest {
    public static RecordType fetchRecordType(String name) {
        return [
            select Id
            from RecordType
            where DeveloperName = :name
        ];
    }

    public static Account getAccount(RecordType rt) {
        return getAccount(rt, '_unittest_account_: 001');
    }
    
    public static Account getAccount(RecordType rt, String name) {
        return new Account(
            Name = name,
            RecordTypeId = rt.Id
        );
    }

    public static CronTrigger fetchCronTrigger(String jobId) {
        return [
            select CronExpression,
                TimesTriggered,
                NextFireTime
            from CronTrigger
            where Id = :jobId
        ];
    }
    public static Map<Id, List<MyObject__c>> fetchMyObjects(List<Account> accts) {
        Map<Id, List<MyObject__c>> result = new Map<Id, List<MyObject__c>>();

        for (Account a: accts) {
            result.put(a.Id, new List<MyObject__c>());
        }

        for (MyObject__c mo: [
            select Account__c
            from MyObject__c
            where Account__c in :result.keySet()
        ]) {
            result.get(mo.Account__c).add(mo);
        }
    }

    static testMethod void testScheduledMonthly() {
        RecordType rt = fetchRecordType('Recipient');
    
        Account testAccount = getAccount(rt);
        insert testAccount;
    
        Test.startTest();
        
        String jobId = System.schedule(
            '_unittest_scheduled_: 001',
            scheduledMonthly.CRON_EXP,
            new scheduledMonthly()
        );
        
        CronTrigger ct = fetchCronTrigger(jobId);
        
        System.assertEquals(scheduledMonthly.CRON_EXP, ct.CronExpression, 'Did not get the same Cron Expression back');
        System.assertEquals(0, ct.TimesTriggered, 'The job has been run and should not have');


        DateTime today = DateTime.now();
        String dateString = ''+today.year()+'-'+today.addMonths(1).month()+'-01 00:00:00';
        System.assertEquals(String.valueOf(DateTime.valueOf(dateString)), String.valueOf(ct.NextFireTime), 'Did not get the right fire date');

        List<MyObject__c> myObjs = fetchMyObjects(new List<Account>{testAccount}).get(testAccount.Id);
        System.assert(myObjs.isEmpty(), 'Should have gotten no objects back');

        Test.stopTest();

        myObjs = fetchMyObj(new List<Account>{testAccount}).get(testAccount.Id);
        System.assert(1, myObjs.size(), 'Did not get the right number of objects back');
    }
}