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Description:

periskop 1.0.0

periskop is an integration testing tool for slack bots. An increasing
diverse set of use-cases are implemented with chat bots e.g. ChatOps,
Service Desk, etc. With periskop we can implement and run integration
tests using a simple yaml file.
Here’s a quick example of the power of periskop:
test_name: chatops_diskspace
bot_name: mrrobot
timeout: 60
slack:
channel: "#periskop-test"
as_user: periskop-user
text: "!diskspace mymachine /var"
expect:
regex: true
attachments:
text: |
.*{u'failures': 0, u'skipped': 1, u'ok': 3, u'unreachable': 0, u'changed': 1}.*
This test chatops_diskspace executes the command
!diskspace mymachine /var in the channel #periskop-test as user
periskop-user and checks for the result in an attachment. The result
is a string with regular expression matching.

Getting Started
Install periskop:
pip install periskop
Check for successfull installation.
periskop --help
Create a config file config.yml with the necessary information to
run tests:
slack_token: abcd-efgh-...-...
as_user: myusername
bot_name: mybotname
channel: "#periskop"
Make sure that the slack token is a valid API Tester token. We need this
kind of token, because bots can’t talk to other bots :).
Create your first test firsttest.yml:
test_name: chatops_diskspace
bot_name: mrrobot
timeout: 60
slack:
text: "!diskspace mymachine /var"
expect:
regex: true
attachments:
text: |
.*{u'failures': 0, u'skipped': 1, u'ok': 3, u'unreachable': 0, u'changed': 1}.*
List all tests:
periskop list
Run the test:
periskop run firsttest

Test Implementation

Slack Input
In the examples above we specified the following simple slack command:
slack:
text: "!diskspace mymachine /var"
We can not only specify text but use the full set of arguments defined
here: Slack PostMessage
API

Test Condition
We can test either for a full text match or for regex. The test allows
for specification of the complete message event
type. Instead of checking for
the attachment you may as well check for the text:
expect:
regex: true
text: |
.*ok.*

RegEx
test_name: chatops_diskspace
bot_name: mrrobot
timeout: 60
slack:
channel: "#periskop"
as_user: periskop-user
text: "!diskspace mymachine /var"
expect:
regex: true
attachments:
text: |
.*{u'failures': 0, u'skipped': 1, u'ok': 3, u'unreachable': 0, u'changed': 1}.*

Full match
test_name: status command
bot_name: mrrobot
timeout: 300
slack:
channel: "#periskop"
as_user: periskop-user
text: "!status mymachine"
expect:
attachments:
text: |
```<http://mymachine> | SUCCESS => {\n "changed": false, \n "ping": "pong"\n}```
text: "@mrrobot: Here is your status for `<http://mymachine>` host(s):"`

Setup Development Environment
git clone https://github.com/unic/periskop.git
python setup.py develop

PyPi
If you want to update the PyPi package, make sure you have a valid
~/.pypirc configuration:
[distutils]
index-servers =
pypi
pypitest

[pypi]
repository=https://pypi.python.org/pypi
username=your_username
password=your_password

[pypitest]
repository=https://testpypi.python.org/pypi
username=your_username
password=your_password
Then execute
pip install pypandoc
brew install pandoc
python setup.py register -r pypi