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Test Analysis 101: The Six Questions That Change Everything

Most junior testers write test cases by reading requirements. Most senior testers write test cases by analysing requirements. The difference? Analysis reveals what the requirement doesn’t say. Here are the six questions that every professional Salesforce tester must ask — every single time. 1. Who? Not a person. A role,

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The Invisible Wall: Why Access Testing Is the Superpower of Salesforce QA Because half the bugs in Salesforce are not bugs — they are permissions.

If you want to see a Salesforce architect panic, show them a user who can suddenly see a field they shouldn’t. If you want to see a tester panic, show them a bug report that makes no sense because it “works for Admin.” Every Salesforce tester eventually learns: Nothing

Case Study: The 100-Product Opportunity That Hit Governor Limits

Some Salesforce bugs are subtle. Some are dramatic. And some are so catastrophic that the platform itself steps in and says: “No. Absolutely not. Stop what you’re doing.” This is a story about the third kind — a real project, a real failure, and a lesson every Salesforce tester must

Case Study: When Process Builder Migration Almost Broke Production

This is one of those Salesforce stories that starts innocently… and ends with half the system refusing to work. It’s also one of the best lessons about the difference between Process Builder, Flow, and Apex execution context. Background The client had around 40 Process Builders running various parts of

Why Testers Should Never Test as Admins

Every tester has done it at least once. You log in as Admin “just to check one thing.” Five minutes later, everything magically works, the bug disappears, and life seems beautiful. Until you test the same scenario as a real user. And the entire process collapses like a Jenga tower

The Myth of the “Quick Fix” in Salesforce Projects

There are few phrases that make Salesforce testers more nervous than: “It’s just a quick fix.” Every time someone says it, a validator breaks, a flow collapses, and somewhere in the distance an Integration Lead feels a disturbance in the Force. Let me tell you why “quick fixes” almost

Five Mistakes Every New Salesforce Tester Makes (I made all of them)

If you're new to Salesforce testing, congratulations: You’re about to learn the rules of a game that looks simple — until you start playing. Here are five mistakes every beginner makes (and that I absolutely made myself). 1. Testing as Admin Classic. Everything works. Then it doesn’t.

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