Signal Simply Business Workshop

Summary

A tutorial app that demonstrates how to write and setup end to end integration tests against an application that integrates with Twilio. For the full detail, please read our blog posts.

Target audience

We assume you are already familiar with the followings

Basic knowledge about how to use Twilio.js
Basic knowledge of Ruby and Sinatra web framework
Basic knowledge of JavaScript
Basic knowledge of testing frameworks and tools, such as RSpec, Gherkin, and Capybara
Basic knowledge of CI (Continuous Integration), such as Semaphoreci though the approach is applicable to other solutions.

This project is tested under OS X only.

Scope of the tests

We use RUBY QUICKSTART: HELLO MONKEY CLIENT as a base project.

This sample project demonstrates the followings

Write Capybara tests that assert when a consultant receives a call from a customer
Dynamically start ngrok and fetch its url
Dynamically update a Twilio incoming phone number callback url to point to the ngrok url
Configure Chrome driver to enable running on the headless environment
Run the integration tests on Semaphore

How to setup locally

Prerequisites

Chrome driver
ngrok
Ruby (tested with version 2.2.3)
Bundler
Semaphore CI account which is free for open source. You can also adapt the solution for other CI services.
Twilio account of course

For CI servers other than Semaphore, you will need to provision Xvfb if this is not started or installed.

Xvfb

Clone the repo

Substitute your own clone/fork of this repo if desired

git clone https://github.com/simplybusiness/signal
cd signal
bundle

Create a config file

cp config/config.yml.example config/config.yml

Obtain Twilio account SID and its auth token

Follow this Twilio guide to obtain Account SID and Auth token, then add them to config/config.yml as account_sid and auth_token

Purchase a Twilio incoming number

Obtain Twilio incoming number, then add the number to config/config.yml as caller_id (please omit +)

Running the tests locally

bundle exec rake

Running the tests on CI

Create a project in Semaphore CI from your forked/cloned copy of our repo.

At the Project Setting section of your project in Semaphore, please do the following

Add command lines

Remove the Setup job.

Add scripts/ci to the Jobs section, removing what is already there.

The final result should look like this:

Starting `Xvfb` if not on Semaphore CI

You may need code like the following in your CI setup code.

NOTE: This code has not been tested

export DISPLAY=:99.0
/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /tmp/cucumber_xvfb_99.pid --make-pidfile --background --exec /usr/bin/Xvfb -- :99 -ac -screen 0 1600x1200x16

Upload `config/config.yml`

Make sure you tick 'Encrypt file'

mickstevens/signal