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Mike Brevoort
October 26, 2016
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Testing and Debugging Slack Apps
Presented at the Slack Dev Meetup October 26, 2016
Mike Brevoort
October 26, 2016
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Transcript
Testing and Debugging Slack Apps Slack Devs Meetup Mike Brevoort
25 October 2016
Mike Brevoort CTO, Robots & Pencils GM, Beep Boop @mbrevoort
robotsandpencils.com beepboophq.com
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Our Journey
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To weather the storm…
Build on a strong foundation
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.
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Testing bots is a lot like web apps A complex
moving target Make underlying components discreet and testable
“Program testing can be a very effective way to show
the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence. – Edsger Dijkstra
Test suites consider the expected. What about the unexpected?
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Monitor changes in behavior
Per team testing
Activity and Insights
The end of the road
Follow up questions and comments: @mbrevoort
[email protected]
https://robotsandpencils.com @robotsNpencils Robots
& Pencils https://beepboophq.com @BeepBoopHQ Beep Boop