Automated Error Prevention (AEP) is an industry best practice that improves application quality through the automatic prevention of errors during the entire software development lifecycle. AEP automates the development process to help software organizations learn from their and everyone else’s mistake to prevent errors from being repeated in software.

Automation is the innovation that allows AEP to overcome the main obstacle of other software quality initiatives whose manual implementation is typically so difficult and time consuming that they cannot feasibly be integrated into most development organizations and software product lifecycles. The introduction of automation is essential to making error prevention a practical strategy for the software industry.

When key error prevention practices are automated, organizations can ensure that they are performed thoroughly and precisely, with minimal disruption to existing processes and projects. As a result, error prevention practices can become a practical, enduring part of a team’s development process rather than an idea that is appreciated in principle, but never truly embraced and implemented.

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