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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Testing Key to Quality Mobile Products |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Testing Key to Quality Mobile Products","summary" : "Building quality mobile products is the greatest challenge for succeeding in the mobile space according to an infographic by SmartBear. One key to developing quality mobile products is testing, as “nearly 50% of consumers will delete an app if they encounter just a single bug.” As a result the following processes are used to ensure","date" : "2014-03-25T10:00:34-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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