Testing and Debugging Slack Apps

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Testing and Debugging Slack Apps Slack Devs Meetup Mike Brevoort 25 October 2016

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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…

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Build on a strong foundation

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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

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“Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Test suites consider the expected. What about the unexpected?

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Monitor changes in behavior

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Per team testing

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Activity and Insights

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The end of the road

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Follow up questions and comments: @mbrevoort [email protected] https://robotsandpencils.com @robotsNpencils Robots & Pencils https://beepboophq.com @BeepBoopHQ Beep Boop