Testing and Debugging Slack Apps

Presented at the Slack Dev Meetup October 26, 2016

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1. Testing and Debugging Slack Apps Slack Devs Meetup Mike Brevoort 25 October 2016
2. Mike Brevoort CTO, Robots & Pencils GM, Beep Boop @mbrevoort robotsandpencils.com beepboophq.com
4. Our Journey
8. To weather the storm…
9. Build on a strong foundation
10. Events API The Events API makes it easier to develop and deploy Slack integrations at scale. The socket based RTM API has its advantages but imposes an impedance mismatch between the rest of the Slack platform, which is entirely HTTP based.
13. Testing bots is a lot like web apps A complex moving target Make underlying components discreet and testable
14. “Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence. – Edsger Dijkstra
15. Test suites consider the expected. What about the unexpected?
17. Monitor changes in behavior
18. Per team testing
19. Activity and Insights
20. The end of the road
21. Follow up questions and comments: @mbrevoort mike.brevoort@robotsandpencils.com https://robotsandpencils.com @robotsNpencils Robots & Pencils https://beepboophq.com @BeepBoopHQ Beep Boop