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!
Getting Started with Distributed Testing
Imagine launching a new feature at your start-up and suddenly getting huge spikes of traffic every month. In an ideal world, you need to test for that. You need to know how your app behaves under real-world load, not just a few hundred users on your laptop. That’s where distributed testing comes in.
In this post, we’ll show you what distributed testing is, why it matters, and how to get started creating your own distributed test environments. We’ll dive into how to simulate realistic traffic patterns, coordinate multiple testing machines, and collect meaningful results so you can find bottlenecks before your users do.
Record and Playback Testing: What Is It?
In this post, we’ll explore Record and Playback Testing, an automated approach that captures user actions like clicks, keystrokes, and navigation and turns them into scripts that can be replayed to ensure software behaves consistently. This method is especially useful for UI and regression testing, validating user flows, and helping Agile teams speed up their testing cycles.
Retesting: What It Is and Why It’s Important
To deliver optimal user experiences, developers must ensure that the features they deliver work as promised. Otherwise, post-deployment, they’ll be woken up by a barrage of notifications from very unhappy customers and colleagues.
In the software development lifecycle, finding bugs early pays a strong dividend. After all, a bug caught before moving to production costs just a fraction of what it otherwise would if encountered in production. When bugs make their way into production environments, the risk of wreaking havoc increases exponentially.
This is why strong software testing procedures are critical.
In a recent piece on Forbes, Tricentis CEO Kevin Thompson outlines the true costs of poor software quality — and how teams can leverage AI tools to minimize errors.
“As organizations accelerate innovation, many are learning that fast delivery without software quality is a recipe for risk,” he writes.
Keep reading to learn more about what retesting is and why it’s so important in the software development lifecycle.
Bottom-Up Testing: An Overview
According to John Tukey, an American mathematician and statistician, “Testing is a critical part of software development. Without testing, the software is likely to have defects.” However, the approach by which you test your application determines how fast and efficient it’ll be. One of the commonly used methods is bottom-up testing.
Bottom-up testing ensures that the foundational components of an application are validated before the overall system integration. This approach reduces the time spent debugging and ensures that the software is stable from the foundation.
This guide covers the basics of bottom-up testing. You’ll learn about how it works, its use cases, benefits, and best practices.
User Access Control: What It Is and Best Practices
Your company faces a security risk whenever former employees maintain access to sensitive organizational files after their departure. This situation occurs frequently in businesses, yet organizations often ignore this risk. The security of systems depends heavily on the ability to control which users can access specific data. User access control (UAC) functions as a system to manage access permissions.
This post explains user access control fundamentals by covering access models, providing effective implementation guidelines, and supplying some best practices.
Software Defects: What They Are and How to Manage Them
To win a battle, you must first understand your enemy intimately. If you want to deliver software with a minimal defect rate, it’s crucial to learn about software defects.
What is the nature of software defects? How are they born? What are the patterns in which they spread throughout a codebase? These are the types of questions we’ll cover in this post.
What You Need to Know About Test Execution
In the early days of computing, testing was quite informal and was owned by developers. It consisted mainly of debugging to fix issues. There was no concept of a test suite to vouch for an application’s accuracy.
As the software development life cycle (SDLC) processes started gaining better structure, test execution also shaped up to be an integral part of development. Test execution emerged as the process to assess and measure the quality of the software.
It was in this more formalized, structured environment that the term “test execution” likely solidified. It was needed to describe the phase of the process where test cases, created during the planning and design stages, were actually run.
Agile methodologies and the rise of test-driven development (TDD) played a major role in promoting test execution as a phase of development.
In this post, we’ll deep dive into test execution and understand why it’s important.
Analytics Testing: Everything You Need to Know
In the high-stakes world of business, it’s critical to have an eye on what’s happening behind the scenes. You ship features. Users click, swipe, and sometimes bounce. If you have an analytics platform in place (and you should), your dashboard glows like city lights at night. But how do you know those lights are telling the truth? Analytics testing makes sure your numbers reflect reality, not wishful thinking. Think of it like calibrating a compass before hiking. You can wander without it, but you’ll likely end up lost.
In this post, we’ll explore what analytics testing is, why it matters, and how to do it well.
Let’s start with the basics.
An Introductory Guide to Salesforce Environments
Direct deployment of changes into production is one of the most typical mistakes made by Salesforce development teams. The result can be a broken feature, data corruption, or unplanned downtime.
Most organizations assume that Salesforce environment installation is a secondary concern until it breaks. Dan Appleman, Salesforce MVP and author of Advanced Apex Programming, notes: “Because execution contexts are shared, there are things that other developers can do that can impact the code that you write. And by impact, I mean break.”
However, there is a way, and the first step is to learn about the various Salesforce environments. With the proper structure, you can streamline development and testing and ensure that your production environment is stable.
This post will explore types of Salesforce environments, challenges in implementing them, and some best practices.
Test Summary Report: What It Is and How to Write One
You run your tests, and some pass while some fail. Then the questions come—what did we test? What didn’t we? Can we ship? If you’ve ever fumbled for answers, you’re not alone.
This guide is for test engineers, QA analysts, and developers who want to address these questions with more confidence. A test summary report (TSR) tells the story of your testing: what was covered, what passed, what failed, and what it all means. It’s short, focused, and helpful.
You’ll learn how to write one that’s clear, traceable, and useful, because great testing isn’t just about finding bugs, it’s also about making sure everyone knows what’s been found.
Code Coverage: What It Is and How to Measure It
In this post, we will break down what code coverage is and how to measure it. Code coverage is a key metric in software testing that shows how much of your source code is exercised by your test suite.
It helps you see which parts of your code are being run during testing and highlights areas that might need more attention. Understanding this metric can improve the effectiveness of your testing strategy and boost overall software quality.
What Is Founder-Led Sales? How to Do It (And When to Stop)
In this post, we’ll explain founder‑led sales, a go‑to‑market strategy where company founders personally drive the sales process by running demos, closing deals, and gathering direct customer feedback to shape product and messaging.
This approach is common in early‑stage startups because founders know their product best and can use insights from selling to refine both the offering and the market strategy. We’ll also cover how to do founder‑led sales effectively and how to know when it’s time to transition to a dedicated sales team.
SaaS Copywriting: A Complete Guide to Doing it Right
In this post, we’ll explore SaaS copywriting and how to do it right. SaaS copywriting uses clear, benefit‑focused language to help prospects and customers understand why your software matters and how it can solve their problems, from first touch to onboarding and beyond. It covers everything from web pages and emails to in‑app messages and thought leadership content, and when executed well it can boost conversions and support long‑term growth.
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!
