explore: testing methodologies for bots

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reference: http://errbot.io/en/latest/user_guide/plugin_development/testing.html

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Tried a couple of things

• behave: BDD for Python, wanted to use it for developing Bot. However this fizzled out quickly, mostly because there seems to be no direct support for calling the testbot object from within Step files.
• pytest: This seems to be better supported, with the ability to call commands (as described in prev link) or do module-level testing (eg. initialize an AwsAdapter class, call its methods directly instead of invokin the bot).

Conclusion: going with pytest.

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Reinvestigating BDD with behave. Possibly pexpect might help to spawn an errbot process.