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Testing chatbots in Xatkit with Botium
Easily create test cases for your chatbots with Botium. Record your conversations and make sure the bot behaves as expected. Integrate those tests in your CI pipeline and get started with regression tests for bots.
New free chatbot plugin for WordPress
Add a chatbot to your WordPress site in less than two minutes. Our free plugin uses DialogFlow to understand your visitors and help them navigate your site, contact you, …
Graphical rendering of your chatbot models
Synchronize your bot textual specification with a graphical representation of its underlying state machine.
Chatbots as first-class citizens in software development – Making CUIs your only UI
Chatbot design should play a more central role in software development processes. Even more, we believe chatbots could be the one and only User Interface offered by those systems, becoming a fully-fledged front-end mixing textual and graphical user interactions.
New Chatbot DSL based on state machines – Xatkit’s language is now more powerful than ever!
Our new Chabot DSL, based on state machine semantics, facilitates the creation of bots with complex conversational flows and maximizes the reuse of bot parts in future projects
Why a chatbot? – Short explainer video
Wondering whether you need a chatbot? Or what chatbots are exactly useful for?. We believe our short chatbots introductory video provides the answers you’re looking for.
Chatbots to fight coronavirus – Are they really useful?
Many covid chatbots are popping up. We believe they won’t have any significant impact in the current pandemic. Let’s see what would take to build a useful covid chatbot.
A dashboard to monitor your chatbot – as important as the chatbot itself!
Learn why every development chatbot project should include a concrete monitoring plan and see how Xatkit brings you the right dashboard for the job!
How to easily implement sentiment analysis in your chatbot
Add empathy to your chatbot by integrating a sentiment analysis feature. This will keep your visitors engaged. Learn how to do it by integrating Stanford NLP in your own tool
A dark mode for your chatbot
Xatkit now features a dark mode. You can activate a dark theme in the react chatbot widget from the very beginning or just ask the chatbot to switch dynamically on and off this mode.
The Pareto Principle applied to the design of chatbots
Understanding how the Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) impacts the world of chatbots will help you to improve the quality and income generation of your bots
