Salesforce Post Go-Live Isn't the End — It's the Beginning of Better Tests

The long, arduous production release is finally over. You’ve entered the hypercare phase, triaging a few bugs that slipped through, and your team quickly swooped in to stabilize the system. You’ve documented the issues, shared the lessons learned, and it feels like you've moved on.

But should that be it?

Not really.

This is the perfect time to build a strong case to the business and engineering leadership for improving your unit tests—specifically to target the exact types of issues that escaped into production. If something broke and it mattered to the business (think P0s and P1s), then your automated test suite should be equipped to catch that class of errors next time.

That means:

• Analyze each production bug from hypercare and map it back to a test case that should have existed.

• Prioritize these scenarios in your unit and integration test suites.

• Treat business-critical flows as first-class citizens in your test coverage, not just edge cases.

It's not just about hitting the code coverage bar. It’s about aligning your test strategy with real-world business risk. That’s what prevents recurrence, earns stakeholder trust, and pushes your platform toward true engineering maturity.