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Botium Box offers two methods to test an SMS Chatbot. It can act as a user sending SMS messages, or can interact with the API behind the chatbot. Sending SMS messages looks like an optimal choice because it covers all the stack, but it has a major drawback, the increased costs.

Voice platforms like Alexa and Google Assistant make it easy to provide a custom voice experience to your clients, even without going deeper in audio processing — everything is part of the platform. But what if you already invested quite some effort into building a chatbot on SAP Conversational AI ? You certainly don’t want to switch to a totally new platform now.

This guide suggests best practices, infrastructure and tools to ensure your voice app continues to deliver outstanding user experience.

“What is the value of testing chatbots?” — A question that hits right in the heart of every passionate tester. It's time to shed some light on this topic.

Botium Box 2.8.4 is out now - and it comes with all you need to test your voice applications - audio recorder, voice synthesis, audio effects. And more.

Getting confused with terms like embeddings, utterance similarity, intent separation and cohesion? Gedankenblase Get educated on NLU quality metrics now.

So you decided to add automated testing to your chatbot project ? Good decision 👍! But don't underestimate the effort 😓 in composing a test suite with high test coverage from scratch. Botium Crawler to the rescue.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions how to setup Botium Box with Perfecto Mobile and Perfecto Web to run continuous End-To-End tests for a chatbot published on a website.

This video tutorial shows how to use Botium Box and Botium Coach to evaluate the performance of an NLU model trained with Rasa.

A Selenium Grid is a set of connected Selenium nodes each running your Selenium tests on a different kind of operating system on a different kind of web browser in a different version. We are using docker-selenium to boot our own Selenium Grid on our own server.

According to the report The State of AI 2019: Divergence there is a lot of Bullshit Bingo around the thing called Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Botium Speech Processing combines the best Open Source speech processing tools in a single service and makes them accessible with a HTTP/JSON API.

Ever wanted to know if your company chatbot would work better on IBM Watson than on Dialogflow ? Or should you give Wit.ai or Amazon Lex a try ? With the help of Botium you can easily benchmark and compare the performance of established chatbot platforms with your own data.

This is part 9 of the Botium in a Nutshell series of articles.

One of the questions we hear the most is how to integrate Botium Box with Jenkins.

This is part 7 of the Botium in a Nutshell series of articles.

Chatbots are cool. They are driving the industry like hardly any other topic these days and are considered to be real game changers.

In the age of agile development, the age of manual regression testing is over. We developed a Botium extension to enable an agile developer team to run automated regression tests on a Microsoft LUIS model within their CI Pipeline.

This is part 5 of the Botium in a Nutshell series of articles.

Testing an Alexa Skill by talking to your device isn’t fun. Some months ago I published an article showing several options for automating testing of your Alexa Skill:

This is part 2 of the Botium in a Nutshell series of articles.

This is part 4 of the Botium in a Nutshell series of articles.

Today I was asked to build a proof-of-concept for using Tricentis Tosca to test an Alexa Skill — challenge accepted!