
For me, and I know I'm 'old school', I feel all this testing just complicates matters! I have always gone by how my bitches react (much as some can be hussies), and perhaps more significantly provided the dog is experienced, how the stud dog does too.
A slip mating isn't a big deal - as long as there's penetration. Most breeders prefer to have a tie, but it's not vital - one of my stud dogs never achieved a tie but only missed to one of the half dozen bitches I let him mate with. She came back on her next season to my other stud dog and missed again. Next time she went to another stud dog not in my kennel, and - same. Clearly she wasn't meant to be a mum.
Bleeding to the end of a season - well most of mine, mated or not, went to a pale straw colour when in standing heat and that usually stayed that way with increasingly less discharge to the end of the season. However one we had mated, twice to an outside stud dog (as in not mine) and came home and went back to a more blood colour discharge through the final week or so. I thought she's never taken. She had an uneventful pregnancy and 9 puppies. Probably the best we'd bred as it turned out.