Are your automated tests taking hours to run? Do they fail randomly because of a UI change on the homepage? In this episode, we tackle the #1 architectural mistake junior Test Automation Engineers make: using the UI to set up test data. Learn why mirroring manual testing steps in your code creates a massive bottleneck, how false negatives destroy trust in your framework, and how you can use API requests to inject session tokens and make your UI tests 10x faster and more reliable.

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