rspec & bots - make bots testable

[davidmann4]

@pferdefleisch @ramonh
cc: @tosh

played around with rspec to make it possible to make tests.. now I wonder how we want to do this :)

https://github.com/davidmann4/botstack/blob/master/spec/bot_spec_helper.rb https://github.com/davidmann4/botstack/blob/master/spec/lib/basic_functionality_spec.rb

I guess we want to be able to test whole conversations? But on the other hand rspec maybe should just cover botstack mechanics?

really curious about your opinion...

[davidmann4]

maybe something like

send_and_expect_answer "Hi bot!", "Hi Human!"
#or
send_text_expect_text "Hi bot!", "Hi Human!"
send_text_expect_image "Hi bot!", "http://host.com/img.png"
send_audio_expect_audio "http://host.com/img.mp3", "http://host.com/img.mp3"

[mraaroncruz]

I like that API.

There's also this for acceptance tests. It's an external server that runs your specs (written in javascript) and stands in as a fake Facebook to receive your outgoing messages. Pretty interesting route.

[davidmann4]

hmm interesting - could it be auto started with bundle exec rspec ?

for now I use webmock --> https://github.com/davidmann4/botstack/commit/18ea589fe26637f79287a9c17a963f406fe1c958

[mraaroncruz]

You could write a wrapper or do something in the spec_helper to help it bootstrap, but that's not really the use case. The use case is that you write all your tests with that test library, in JavaScript. So it's likely not that interesting if you want to stick to Ruby (which you likely do and should).

Your solution fits more into the project. 👍