Facebook Revamps Social Graph Applications Testing

People can be really unforgiving about bugs, yet pressure to get to market first can compromise even the best — er, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Now Facebook’s own systems for weeding out fake profiles and spam won’t interfere with testing of social graph software.

Facebook has just updated its tools for developers to create and use test accounts tapping the social graph application programming interface. You can create up to 50 faux users per app, set specific permissions for each of them, and they can friend each other to whatever extent you need in order to see how a piece of software works among a group.