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Test Users
Test users on Facebook were, historically, a pain. At first we just created real user accounts and hoped they wouldn’t get discovered and deleted. Facebook then created a network for test users; accounts in that network were safe from deletion and unable to mess around in the real world. Still, you had to create and manage those accounts manually, through the web, authorizing and deauthorizing apps just like regular users. It was a clunky system, and Facebook promised better.
Our long wait came to an end with the announcement of Facebook’s [Test User API](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/). With the API, you can create up to 50 test users for your application, with whatever permissions, install status, and friend networks you need. Because it’s a programmatic interface, your tests can run reliably and automatedly against clean users who you know will exactly match the test cases you want. And because it’s a Facebook API, we support it.