I don’t think we should remove it, because it makes thing easy to test. 

May we what we can do is
a) Call this a TEST token as opposed to access token  (the label , the button)
b) Move the test generation elsewhere not so close to the key/secret generation.

Isabelle.

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Roshan Wijesena <ros...@wso2.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 to keep the token as a  "Test" Access Token. 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Nuwan Dias <nuw...@wso2.com 
> <mailto:nuw...@wso2.com>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On the API Store UI, whenever you generate credentials for an Application it 
> also generates for you an OAuth 2.0 Access Token. This Access Token shouldn't 
> ideally be used by any Application because its basically a token we generate 
> for testing purposes (i.e for the API Console to work). 
> 
> However, I have seen this token been misused by many by hardcoding it in 
> their Apps, etc. Which potentially compromises the security of those 
> Applications as well. Should we remove it from the UI completely? Or maybe 
> make it pretty obvious on the UI that the token is a "Test" Access Token?
> 
> Thanks,
> NuwanD.
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