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!
What Are Brittle Tests? Definition & How to Prevent Them
We often come across the word resilience in software engineering. While the term applies to many things, one area that’s often overlooked is tests. Ideally, software tests should only fail when something actually goes wrong in the system.
With brittle tests, however, failures occur because the tests themselves are fragile, not because the application is broken. An easy way to spot this is during refactoring, i.e., when you change the internal structure of the code without changing its external behavior. By definition, refactoring shouldn’t break anything.
But if your tests disagree, it may be because you’re testing the wrong layer.
Keep reading to learn more about what brittle tests are, why they exist, and how your team can manage them effectively. We’ll explore modern AI solutions you can use to respond to brittle tests.
Playwright Recorder: A Complete Guide to Getting Started
The entirety of the software world is united by the need to write tests, be it a unit test for backend or frontend code or an integration test for the entire application. If it’s a website, writing robust tests can check a lot of flows.
A decade back, when I was still in college, I came across tools like Selenium, which seemed like magic. A tool that can copy clicks on a website and then use that to mimic a series of human-like actions and automate a bunch of activities? I was sold. I remember using it to write a web scraper.
When I started working, the world had transitioned to Playwright, with all of its advantages. A major highlight is its ability to provide a recorder and code generation for generating tests. We’ll use this post to explore the different ways we can use Playwright recorder to generate tests for our use cases.
What Is No-Code Test Automation? A Detailed Look
Code-based test automation has been the traditional method for conducting automated testing. It involves using code to create automated test scripts, which is a challenge for people with no programming experience. With this approach, you’ll need a skilled professional who spends more time writing code and might also make mistakes in the process.
However, no-code test automation eliminates the need for someone with coding skills to carry out tests. With no-code test automation, both technical and non-technical users can perform testing.
This guide will provide you with an understanding of no-code test automation. You’ll learn how this compares with traditional automation testing, its benefits, how it works, and how it can be implemented into your workflow.
AI in API Testing: Everything You Need to Know
AI is everywhere, from apps to customer support to software development. AI in API testing is now enhancing engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
APIs are treated as products, making the developer experience the customer experience. Ensuring a successful first API call requires robust testing of methods, payloads, headers, authentication, and real-world examples.
AI agents are now major API users, sending unpredictable requests that traditional testing cannot handle. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70 percent of enterprises will use AI-augmented testing tools.
Complete SharePoint Migration Guide: Plan, Tools & How-To
As organizations modernize how teams collaborate, many eventually find themselves moving content, sites, and workflows into newer versions of SharePoint or SharePoint Online as part of Microsoft 365.
On paper, Microsoft provides a well-documented process with tools to help with the migration process. In reality, anyone who’s managed a migration knows it’s rarely as simple as pressing “click and done.”
If you’re thinking about migrating to a new SharePoint environment, you’re in the right place. This guide is a complete introduction to SharePoint migration.
Keep reading to learn what a SharePoint migration is, why organizations do it, how to plan it properly, which tools to use, and how to execute a migration step by step while minimizing risk.
Enterprise SaaS Data Governance Framework: A Complete Guide
When mission-critical business data lives in SaaS applications, most organizations assume that the vendor has it covered. In the event of an outage or security incident, organizations incorrectly think that vendors are responsible for recovering and restoring data.
Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy.
If you’re looking to secure your enterprise SaaS data, you’re in the right place. In this guide, we examine why SaaS data backup is important, the ins and outs of enterprise SaaS data governance frameworks, and how you can use them to protect your business data and recover it independently of SaaS vendors.
SharePoint Security: A Complete Guide With Best Practices
SharePoint is one of the most powerful collaboration platforms in Microsoft 365. Teams use it to co-author documents, share information inside and outside the organization, and store business-critical data.
Since it’s embedded in everyday work, however, SharePoint is often exposed to accidental data leaks, insider risk, and misconfigured access.
While Microsoft provides strong built-in security for SharePoint, most SharePoint incidents aren’t caused by exploited vulnerabilities (though sometimes they are). They usually happen when default settings aren’t adjusted, permissions are too broad, or sharing lacks proper controls.
This guide covers how to manage SharePoint Online security and its key best practices. Keep reading to learn how to control sharing, tighten permissions, and protect sensitive data across your SharePoint environment.
Top 9 Business Thought Leaders to Follow in 2026
No matter how effective you are as a business leader, there’s always room to grow.
Keep reading to learn about some of the most influential business thought leaders to follow in 2026, along with how you can get started on your thought leadership journey and wind up on lists like this in the years to come.
What Is Agentic Architecture? A Beginner’s Guide
Agentic systems are no longer experimental tools that live on the edges of the modern software stack. Instead, they’re becoming part of how core business systems operate.
What’s driving this shift is not just better models or smarter agents, but the architecture that supports them.
This article breaks down what agentic architecture actually is, why more and more organizations are prioritizing it, and why it matters in real-world B2B contexts.
AI DevOps Agents: What They Are and Why They Matter
DevOps automation reduces repetitive work, but traditional scripts tend to break when requirements change.
AI DevOps agents go further — watching systems, thinking about issues, and fixing problems autonomously. Teams increasingly use them to handle tasks that used to require an engineer’s constant attention.
As DevOps environments grow more complex — thanks to the proliferation of multi-cloud setups and microservices — most teams don’t have enough resources to manage them manually, particularly at scale.
This is where AI DevOps agents can make a huge impact.
By spotting new patterns, analyzing and acting on information, and learning from past incidents, agents help DevOps engineers move beyond managing basic scripts to focusing solely on the most challenging, high-impact problems.
MCP Security Risks: What Every Team Should Know
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the “glue” that lets AI tools and systems work together, powering agentic AI—systems that act autonomously. The market is booming, but with it comes risk. Even small errors or malicious prompts can make agents issue harmful commands, and studies show most AI agents violate policies within 10–100 queries.
That’s why MCP security risks matter. This article explores what MCP is, the main security risks, and how to mitigate them.
Sales organizations are under growing pressure to move faster and deliver more personalized experiences without adding headcount.
AI Sales Agents: The Complete Guide
Unfortunately, manual lead qualification, disconnected tools, and delayed follow-ups often slow teams down and create friction in the sales process. Enter AI sales agents, which help cut through that friction by taking on routine work and supporting sales workflows in a more intelligent, autonomous way.
In this guide, we’ll explore what AI sales agents are, how they work, the different types of agents available today, and how to use them effectively in real-world sales environments.
You’ll also learn how to get started using AI sales agents and how Workato helps organizations deploy both pre-built AI sales agents and custom agents.
Jira MCP Integration: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Jira MCP Integration lets AI agents manage Jira issues, generate reports, and analyze tickets automatically using simple natural-language commands. A Jira MCP server acts as a secure bridge between your AI and Jira, extending issue-tracking into AI environments like Claude Desktop or Cursor AI.
This guide shows how to set up a Jira MCP server with Node.js and configure it for Claude Desktop, or use Workato’s Enterprise MCP for a ready-made, secure solution with built-in governance.
How to Set Up and Use an MCP Server: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
If you’ve ever wished that your AI assistant could connect to your tools — and not just answer questions — this tutorial is your starting point.
In this post, you’ll learn exactly how to configure an MCP server in VS Code so your AI assistants can securely work with real data from your business systems.
AI Agent Security Explained: Protecting Enterprise Systems
AI Agent Security is critical as autonomous AI agents can set goals, make decisions, and interact with APIs, cloud services, and internal data. While this autonomy boosts productivity, it also creates new security challenges.
Businesses must understand the risks, mitigation strategies, and governance frameworks to protect sensitive data, prevent operational errors, and maintain trust in AI-driven processes.
Other Miscellaneous Links
- The latest episode of the freelancer Q&A podcast series.
- We’re playing around with using Mailchimp’s built-in site creation functionality (though it’s admittedly a work in progress).
- We’re likewise doing some R&D on an Azure site for API consumption.
- We’ve started to publish notes on small Osiris updates to the our micro.blog property.
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!
