Testing Botkit Blocks

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Testing Botkit Blocks

[amplicity]

My team has created a mock for mocking botkit conversations. We have been using that internally for automated testing with mocha. We're running some checks to see how fit it would be for botkit as a whole..will cycle back and push a fork if it's applicable.

[amplicity]

@nikbora As referenced above, our team has been internally using a mock solution to test botkit conversations and api responses.

I've uploaded our mock and some test examples to the repo below. hope this is helpful!

https://github.com/amplicity/BotMock

[RafaelCosman]

@ghostsquad We don't have any system for testing yet -- would you be interested in submitting a PR with one?

[ghostsquad]

How did you test Botkit? manual testing?

[anonrig]

You can mock the Slacks API responses and make Botkit think that it is connecting with Slack @ghostsquad

[RafaelCosman]

@ghostsquad we don't yet have a solid testing system for Botkit and would love help implementing one. We do have a couple of tests. For example, we test storage modules using storage/storage_test.js.

[karlbright]

It should be noted that storage options are now in separate repos/modules and have tests using stubs etc against them.

I think the best way is to use a web-token and code some command issuing layer over some like slack-cli slack client for command line. We can catch answers from bot, we can speak in different ambients, and also it's not need to fake each crucial function nor objects. I just was reading a test for an hour, that is using near to 4 libraries, and I had to do a lot of effort to understand just a % of the whole testing scripts. What do you think?

[wagmiwiz]

Hey guys, I too am curious as to what people are doing to automatically test their bot/conversation logic, other than connecting it to Slack and manually interacting with it.

Does anyone have example code with a mocked up Slack API or a mocked up conversation object used in automated tests?

I've got it! I am using nightmare, it works like a charm. But need coding.

[wagmiwiz]

@amplicity that sounds cool, looking forward to it. Feel free to share your process even if you don't think it belongs inside of botkit, perhaps via another repo or a blog post.

[peterswimm]

moving discussion over here #850