I've been building web applications for 8 years, and locale handling has always been my silent killer. Date formats break in production, currency symbols get mangled, timezone calculations drift—all caught too late. That's why I took TestSprite for a real project spin. Integration testing is boring, expensive, and brittle. Write 100 Selenium tests, change the UI once, watch 60 fail. Most teams eit
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