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Sometimes you want to determine what has changed between an existing record in the database and an update to the record. The diffRecord method will return all the fields that changed for a specific record.

Compare the difference between to records and return changed fields

public SObject diffRecord(SObject updatedRecord, SObject currentRecord, String sObjectName){
  SObjectType objToken = Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get(sObjectName);
  DescribeSObjectResult objDef = objToken.getDescribe();
  Map<String, SObjectField> fields = objDef.fields.getMap();
  Type classType = Type.forName(sObjectName);
  SObject diffRecord = (SObject)JSON.deserialize('{}', classType);
  for (String field : fields.keySet()){
    if (!fieldsToExclude.contains(fields.get(field).getDescribe().getName()) && (fields.get(field).getDescribe().isUpdateable() || fields.get(field).getDescribe().isCreateable())){
        if (updatedRecord.get(field)!=currentRecord.get(field))
        	diffRecord.put(field, updatedRecord.get(field));
    }
  }
  return diffRecord;
}

Test that only changed fields are returned

@isTest static void testDiffRecords(){
  String currentRecordJSON = '{"Id":"a0L63000000qc43EAA","Account_Type__c":"Managed","Amount__c":50.00,"Category__c":"Deposit","Description__c":"Deposit","End_Date__c":"2020-03-31T15:06:57.000+0000","Frequency__c":"Monthly"}';
  String updatedRecordJSON = '{"Amount__c":50.0,"Id":"a0L63000000qc43EAA","Frequency__c":"Annually"}';
  Type classType = Type.forName('Account');
  SObject currentRecord = (SObject)JSON.deserialize(currentRecordJSON, classType);
  SObject updatedRecord = (SObject)JSON.deserialize(updatedRecordJSON, classType);
  Test.startTest();
    SObject diffRecord = App_Service.instance.diffRecord(updatedRecord, currentRecord, 'Account');
    System.assertEquals(diffRecord.get('Amount__c'), null);
    System.assertEquals(diffRecord.get('Frequency__c'), 'Annually');
    System.assertEquals(diffRecord.get('Account_Type__c'), null);
    System.assertEquals(diffRecord.get('Category__c'), null);
  Test.stopTest();
}