Welcome to Hit Subscribe’s Monthly Digest! In this edition, we’re excited to share a collection of recent blog posts we’ve written for our clients. Plus, stick around till the end—we’ve included a meme of the month to keep things fun!
How to Remove Web Browser Extensions: A Step-By-Step Guide
Web browser extensions are beneficial to users. They block ads, save passwords, check grammar, and integrate your favorite tools right into the browser.
But not all extensions are safe or necessary. Some may slow down performance, compromise privacy, or even introduce security risks.
Whether you are tasked with managing extensions for your team or just want to learn how to remove web browser extensions for yourself, this guide’s for you.
Keep reading to learn how to remove web browser extensions and what they are. We’ll also take you through the steps you’ll need to follow to remove them from popular browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.
Ransomware Attacks: What They Are and How to Prevent Them
Ransomware is more than just a headline; it’s a ticking time bomb. A few years ago, Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that there would be a ransomware attack on businesses every 11 seconds by 2021; more recently, they predicted that by 2031, a ransomware attack would happen every two seconds. That’s an increase of 550%.
What’s more, attackers aren’t just locking you out anymore. They’re often stealing data in the process and threatening to release it if the ransom isn’t paid. This digital extortion scheme has become one of the most significant threats in cybersecurity. It’s not a matter of if you’ll be targeted, but when.
This guide gives you a clear understanding of the threat and actionable strategies to counter it. We’ll cover how ransomware works, why it’s on the rise, and the essential steps for prevention and recovery.
What is DORA Compliance? A Complete Guide
Picture a bank’s trading floor: APIs hum, payments clear, traders watch screens. Now imagine a cloud provider fails—a single error halts payments, freezes trades, sparks calls.
This is the kind of risk the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) addresses. Financial services rely on a complex, fragile web of tech where one mistake can ripple across millions of customers. DORA isn’t just bureaucracy—it ensures failures don’t stop services, turning vague assurances into verifiable resilience.
An Introduction to Design Testing
Design testing is your early warning system, your sanity check, your user-first gut check before development goes full steam ahead. Whether you’re building a sleek mobile app or revamping a legacy enterprise tool, design testing helps you figure out what works (and what doesn’t) long before launch day.
In this post, we’ll explore what design testing is, why it’s important, how it works, its benefits, and how solutions like Tricentis can aid in the process.
A Detailed Guide to Globalization Testing
Imagine you’ve just landed the next great idea for your SaaS product, and you start to build it. An all-star team of developers embarks on a journey, day in and day out, to code a wonderful product. The only problem, you realize, albeit quite later in the process, is that your software was hardcoded, which only allows it to work in a particular region. The result? Back to the drawing board—you have to redesign. To avoid such pain, globalization testing comes in handy.
Ensuring your software works for a global audience is a necessity, especially if you want to scale your business. Let’s take a deeper look at what globalization testing is and how businesses can benefit from it.
What Is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?
It might be surprising for you to learn that test-driven development (TDD) isn’t a software testing technique, but that’s the truth. What is TDD, then?
TDD is a software development methodology in which automated testing plays a core role. But what does that mean in practice? What is TDD used for, what are its benefits, and should you adopt it?
An Introduction to Exception Handling
Error handling is massively important in programming, to the point where some people say software development is mostly error handling. In many modern programming languages, the primary mechanism for managing errors is exception handling.
This guide is an introduction to exception handling. You’ll learn the definition of an exception, what exception handling is, and why it’s so important, and some best practices when handling exceptions. Additionally, we’ll show examples of exception handling in C#.
Before covering exception handling, though, it makes sense to offer a refresher on the concept of exceptions themselves.
Mutation Testing: A Detailed Overview
In this article, we’ll cover the concept of mutation testing: what it is, why it’s important, and what to know in order to get started with it. As you’ll learn, mutation testing isn’t necessarily a distinct category of testing. It’s not, for instance, a competitor to unit testing, but quite the opposite: it’s a technique or approach you can use to make your unit tests better.
A Beginner’s Guide to Microservice Testing
Picture 2 a.m., still in the office—our midnight deployment stalled because integration tests across microservices were failing. We’d broken our monolith to move faster, yet our testing strategy hadn’t kept up.
As Eric Evans noted, microservices enforce clear domain boundaries—but those boundaries demand rigorous testing. Without it, production surprises are inevitable.
Let’s dive into microservice testing.
Acceptance Testing: Definition and Types
In this article, you will learn about acceptance testing, its various types, benefits, challenges, and some of the best practices that you can follow while performing it.
A Detailed Guide to Risk-Based Testing
Risk is something we all deal with in everyday life, and software testing is no exception. Various risks can arise during the software development life cycle (SDLC), ranging from security vulnerabilities and performance issues to features not working as expected. These problems can lead to unreliable software and, ultimately, damage to a company’s reputation.
Poor implementation or ignoring crucial components of a system are mostly the causes of such risks. Risks can occasionally occur because those factors initially appeared to be unimportant. Risk-based testing can help with that. It assists you in determining which features are most vulnerable and estimating the possible consequences if they malfunction.
This guide will teach you the fundamentals of risk-based testing, its advantages, and the key steps to successfully implementing it.
Manual Testing: Everything You Need to Know
Say you’re testing a checkout flow for a shopping app when you notice that the payment button hides behind the keyboard. It works perfectly in code, but users would struggle to tap it. This is manual testing’s strength: catching the issues automation misses.
In this post, we’ll look at what manual testing is, its benefits, its drawbacks, and how it compares with and complements automated tests.
AI in User Testing Explained: Everything You Should Know
User testing remains a reliable way to uncover friction, confusion, and unmet expectations before release. It’s the difference between shipping a feature that works and delivering one that feels right to use.
Yet traditional user testing, like organizing sessions, writing test scripts, watching hours of recordings, etc., has always been time-intensive. Teams know it’s valuable, but struggle to scale it.
Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is making a significant impact in this area as well.
AI speeds up user session analysis, automatically generates test tasks, and reveals usability insights that could otherwise be missed. Because of this, we can test continuously without sacrificing human oversight, and our cycles become faster and more comprehensive.
Better digital experiences can be built with the help of AI-powered user testing, which we’ll explain in this post. And there’s good news: You will not have to give up control of the process.
AI in Quality Management: Benefits and Challenges
AI is now embedded in nearly every software workflow. By 2025, 85% of developers use AI tools regularly, and 62% rely on at least one AI coding assistant.
With code being generated faster than humans can review, quality management is more critical than ever. Manual checks can’t keep up—AI-enabled quality management ensures speed without sacrificing reliability.
Let’s explore how AI is transforming quality management, along with its benefits and risks.
What Is Agentic Automation: A Beginner’s Guide
Traditional automation follows rule-based logic. Agentic automation evaluates context, learns from outcomes and feedback, and gets smarter over time.
Here’s how this new wave of intelligent automation is transforming workflows.
Jira Test Plan: A Guide to Getting Started
Poorly organized test plans are a common blind spot in software releases, leading to missed errors and repeated testing. Imagine planning a release with hundreds of user stories and not knowing who tested what or where bugs were recorded.
As Sérgio Freire notes: “Test planning allows you to decide your testing strategy, including the issues you want to validate [and] how to validate them.”
This post shows how to create a Jira test plan to design, plan, and execute traceable tests that support Agile development.
AI in End-to-End Testing Explained: A Complete Guide for 2025
Once, our team built a comprehensive end-to-end login test suite, only for it to fail when a developer renamed a button. The app worked fine, but the tests screamed red.
With microservices, APIs, and multi-system user journeys, E2E testing is more important and harder than ever. AI sounds appealing, but is it truly useful? Let’s explore AI in end-to-end testing.
AI in Penetration Testing: A Complete Guide for 2025
AI has changed the pentesting game. Classic vulnerabilities like SQL injection are still relevant, but large language models powering chatbots and code generators open up many new risks.
The first time I tested an ML model in production, it wasn’t just the API or interface that worried me—it was everything. Classic pentesting techniques still help, but they need to be adapted for AI.
In this post, I’ll share what I learned and explore AI penetration testing in detail.
ChatGPT in Test Automation: How to Use It Effectively
Of late, we’ve all heard the chatter about how tools like ChatGPT have gotten really good at coding and can replace entire teams of developers. One of the first use cases I saw in the teams I worked with was using it for test case generation.
Most developers find test writing tedious and have been relying on large language models for help. In this post, we’ll explore how to leverage ChatGPT in test automation and all the nuances of using it effectively across the testing process.
Agentic AI in Quality Management Explained
Software delivery is moving faster than ever, but traditional quality management processes alone can’t keep up. According to the Tricentis quality transformation report, 40% of organizations lose over $1 million each year due to poor software quality. Manual and reactive QA methods are reaching their limits.
This raises an important question: How can Agentic AI in Quality Management help overcome these limits? In this post, we’ll explain what agentic quality management is, how it addresses modern QA challenges, and how Tricentis solutions are making this intelligent, automated approach a reality.
Release Planning: What It Is and Why It’s Important
No matter what software you’re shipping to your customers, release planning is the magic wand that ensures your release is executed smoothly and without any hiccups.
While the term “release planning” may seem self-explanatory, it’s often oversimplified as merely setting timelines and documenting release changes. To truly understand the value of release planning and its pivotal role in successful software delivery, this post explores what it is, why it matters, and how it supports engineering and QA teams.
Quality Intelligence: Definition, Benefits & Best Practices
Software teams all want to ship fast, but oftentimes, that speed comes at a cost. The Tricentis 2025 report says almost 40% of companies lose over $1 million every year because of bad software quality.
Even worse, 63% of participants say they sometimes release untested code just to meet deadlines, and about a third say poor communication between developers and testers causes many of their issues.
These results show there’s a big gap between shipping fast and building good software. That’s why teams need quality intelligence to understand what’s breaking and fix it before it becomes a bigger issue.
Developing Executive Presence: A Practical How-To Guide
Executive presence is the qualities and skills that enable leaders to inspire confidence and influence others, whether that’s in a conference room, a media interview, or a LinkedIn feed. More than simply having a C-suite title and requisite experience, executive presence is the special sauce that enables leaders to show up and command attention.
AI Avatars: What They Are and How Leaders Can Use Them
What do Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Sam Liang, and Eric Yuan have in common?
Aside from being CEOs of major tech companies — Klarna, Otter.ai, and Zoom, respectively — the three business leaders are using AI avatars to attend meetings and even give updates on earnings calls.
Meme Of The Month
Straight from our internal Slack channel—because memes are fun, and so are we.
That’s All, Folks!
Thanks for catching up with us and we’ll see you next month. In the meantime, feel free to reach out if you have any questions, want to share your thoughts, or want to talk shop!
