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Testing and Debugging Slack Apps

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Testing and Debugging Slack Apps

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Transcript

  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
  3. None

  4. Our Journey

  5. None
  6. None
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  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.
  11. None
  12. None

  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?

  16. None

  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 [email protected] https://robotsandpencils.com @robotsNpencils Robots

    & Pencils https://beepboophq.com @BeepBoopHQ Beep Boop