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Tomasz Teodorowicz

The Test Case That Proved Nothing

The Illusion of Green Lights In the dashboard of any ALM tool—whether it's Jira, Azure DevOps, or a spreadsheet—there is nothing more satisfying than a column of green checkmarks. A test case was written. A human executed it. The result was "Pass." Evidence was attached. And yet, it is entirely…

The Bug Wasn’t in the Logic. It Was in the Assumption.

The Three-Week Time Bomb There is a specific kind of Salesforce bug that hates being found early. It doesn’t show up in System Integration Testing (SIT). It doesn’t appear in User Acceptance Testing (UAT). It certainly doesn't crash during the stakeholder demo. It appears three weeks after go-live,…

Salesforce Testing Is Not About Salesforce

The Quiet Lie in the Job Description There is a quiet lie hiding inside many Salesforce projects. It sounds innocent. It sounds reasonable. It sounds professional. “We need someone who knows Salesforce really well.” Every time I hear that sentence, I know exactly what will happen next. The team…

The Most Dangerous Sentence in Salesforce Testing

The Sentence That Should Stop the Meeting There is one sentence that should immediately raise a red flag in any Salesforce project. It sounds harmless. It sounds efficient. It sounds like the voice of experience. “We don’t need to test this, it’s just standard Salesforce.” You hear it during…

Most Salesforce Problems Are Not Bugs

The Strangest Realization in the Ecosystem One of the strangest realizations you will have after working on enough Salesforce projects is this: Most problems people report are not bugs. They are systems behaving exactly as designed—just not as imagined. We have all seen the ticket. It comes in with…

Salesforce Is Deterministic. People Are Not.

The Most Unfair Complaint in the Ecosystem One of the most unfair things people say about Salesforce during a crisis is this: “The system is behaving randomly.” It’s the go-to excuse when a bug appears, disappears, and then reappears three days later. It comforts the team to believe that the…

The Checkbox That Destroyed Your Release

The Most Deceptive UI Element There is nothing more dangerous in a Salesforce refinement session than this sentence: “Don’t worry, it’s just a checkbox.” It sounds minimal. It sounds safe. It sounds like a five-minute change that doesn't require a full regression cycle. But in Salesforce, a…

The Test Case That Passed and Still Broke Production

The Silence After the Release There is a special kind of silence that falls over a project team on a Monday morning. The release went out on Friday. The dashboard shows 100% test pass rate. The stakeholders signed off. And yet, Production is currently exploding. Users are stuck, data is corrupt,…

Salesforce Bugs Rarely Live Where You Look

Most Salesforce defects are invisible to the naked eye. Learn why the real bugs hide in automation chains, permission layers, and system behavior, not on the screen.

Configuration vs Code: Why Salesforce Testers Must Think in Layers

Why two features that look identical almost never behave the same. Early in my Salesforce career, a developer once told me: „Don’t worry, it works the same way whether it’s built in Flow or Apex.” That sentence cost us three days of debugging. Because in Salesforce, how something is built matters…