In a rush and just want to set up your site to get tested on each deploy? Scroll down to Step 1. When I first heard about , , and idea for a I was super psyched. I haven’t taken part in a hackathon in ages, and with this coming Saturday free, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a “break” from my usual work with and try building something from scratch under extreme time constraints. Pat Armin Melanie’s 24 Hour Startup Challenge Monkey Test It Oh yeah, did I also mention it’s going to be live streamed the whole time? No pressure. Nearly , and I’ll be one of them. Feel free to and watch me flail around this Saturday 🙈 500 other eager makers follow me on Twitch Having a testing-first/quality-focused mindset can sometimes be a disadvantage under these sorts of constraints. After all, a hackathon is all about taking shortcuts and rapid progress. But what if I told you that we could make use of the trusty and get some testing magic with minimal effort — for free no less? Pareto Principle This is where Monkey Test It comes in. In less than 60 seconds you can have automated tests running each time you deploy your site and get an email in your inbox when anything breaks. Obviously, we won’t worry too much about things like SEO and speed/resource-consumption — but broken links, missing images, and JavaScript errors can really adversely affect the user experience of a site, and in the context of a competition, the favor of the masses (read: votes). Although you can schedule Monkey Test It to run periodically, in this case, we’ll want to run tests each time you deploy your site. We already have some instructions for popular CI systems like and , but quick deployment services like Netlify, so in this post, we’ll quickly run through how to get that configured in a heartbeat. Heroku Travis CI makers these days tend to favor Step 2: Get your API key Scroll down your dashboard and take note of your API key. It’ll look like a long hyphenated string of random characters. Step 3: Configure Test Hooks Within Netlify you’ll need to access your settings and configure a new successful build notification webhook. Take a look below for step-by-step navigation on what to do. Click Settings Select “Build and deploy” Click on “Deploy Notifcations” Chose “Add notifcation” Select “Outgoing webhook” Listen for “Deploy succeeded”, add your Monkey Test It URL/Secret, then click save. This final step is a bit tricky because you’ll want to insert a rather long and scary looking string. Basically what it is telling Netlify to do is to make an API call to Monkey Test It using your personal Monkey API key and which tests to run. Configure your magic string like this: https://api.monkeytest.it/netlify/test?on_load=true&on_click=true&page_weight=false&seo=false&broken_links=true&asset_count=false&secret=XXXX-YOUR-SECRET-API-KEY-XXXX Replace the bit with your API key from the Monkey Test It dashboard you got from XXXX-YOUR-SECRET-API-KEY-XXXX Step 2. Once you’ve clicked save then everything should be done. You’ll be able to see your deployment test history directly in the Monkey Test It dashboard, as well as getting automatically notified over email if any of your tests failed. That’s all! Pat yourself on your back and have a banana 🍌— you rock! 🐵 If you have any issues or would just like a chat, feel free to or . Want to stay up to date with Monkey Test It and all the things we get up to there? Follow the too — they appreciate the attention! email DM on twitter monkeys on twitter
