In Chapter 5, you learned how to build a chatbot using Microsoft Bot Framework Composer. In that chapter you learned how to author the various dialogs and actions to build the conversational experience. The next step after building a chatbot is to test the chatbot. This is the topic of this chapter “Testing a Chatbot” with a strong focus on how to test and debug a chatbot on your machine, without the need to publish the bot beforehand.
During this chapter you will learn how to use the Bot Framework Emulator to test and debug a chatbot’s conversation. Furthermore, ...