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# Using non-functional testing to guide user interface, backend services, voice interface, and media development

Want to deliver a five-star user experience? Discover how double-purposing functional automated tests for non-functional metrics safeguards performance across UI, voice, and media.

- **Speakers:** Brien Colwell
- **Event:** World Congress 2021
- **Published:** June 28, 2021
- **Duration:** 47:37
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/231-using-non-functional-testing-to-guide-user-interface-backend-services-voice-interface-and-media-development
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