Bot Army Cookbook

Tips, Tricks, and Recipes for Building Effective Bots

The "Bot Army" is a tool for testing apps and services with AI-powered "bots." It can do both load testing and functional/integration testing.

First steps:

Why bots? - because they simulate real users

Understand how to use Behavior Trees effectively

You're going to have to know a little Elixir

Review the full docs

Get started with the Bot Army Starter Repo

Here are some useful recipes for common bot tasks.

How do I...?

Conditionally run actions

Control the number of actions per second

Generate meaningful logs

Handle errors

Parameterize actions

Reuse actions

Reuse subtrees

Track current state

Validate expectations

Authenticate a bot

Fetch data from an HTTP endpoint

Ramp up the bot count over time

Repeat actions

Set default values

Use different trees for different bots

Add randomness

Do browser UI testing

Do mobile application UI testing

Integrate with native code

Read and write to the file system

Share data between bots

Use long-polling

Use websockets

Wait for another bot to finish an action

Wait for async results

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