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The Top 5 Test Automation Mistakes Test automation is a valuable process, but it can be difficult to integrate into your existing test strategy. Melissa Tondi talked to hundreds of people about the biggest mistakes they’ve made when automating. Here are five of the most popular answers—and advice on how we can stop repeating these mistakes. |
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Building Security into Apps: How and Why You Need to Detect Threats In a perfect world, developers and testers are constantly asking themselves, “How can I make this more secure?” Security has become both a hot topic and a major priority in most businesses, but actually creating a mobile or web application that’s not porous might be more difficult than ever. |