# Testing Tips and tricks to help test your apps. ## When using the Password strategy AshAuthentication uses `bcrypt_elixir` for hashing passwords for secure storage, which by design has a high computational cost. To reduce the cost (make hashing faster), you can reduce the number of computation rounds it performs in tests: ```elixir # in config/test.exs # Do NOT set this value for production config :bcrypt_elixir, log_rounds: 1 ```