Test Your Skill
The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) includes tools to help you test and debug your skill. The types of testing you do is dependent on the voice interaction model for your skill type. Before you publish your skill, you can beta test with a small group of users.
Test for the voice interaction model
Use these guidelines for the pre-built and custom voice interaction models to test your skills:
- Test and Debug Your Smart Home Skill
- Test and Debug a Custom Skill
- Skill Beta Testing for Alexa Skills
The following table shows the most widely used test tools.
| Tool | Prebuilt | Custom |
|---|---|---|
| Alexa simulator in the developer console | ✔ | ✔ |
| ASK CLI test tools | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) evaluation tool | — | ✔ |
| Natural Language Understanding (NLU) evaluation tool | — | ✔ |
| Skill Testing using Skill Management API for automated testing | ✔ | ✔ |
| Smart Home debugger | ✔ | — |
| Smart Home test tools for automated testing | ✔ | — |
| Utterance profiler | — | ✔ |
| Visual Studio Code Alexa simulator | — | ✔ |
Additional resources
The following additional resources help you learn about testing an Alexa skill.
Concepts and procedures
- In-Skill Purchase Testing Guide
- ASK CLI simulate Command
- ASK CLI dialog Command
- SMAPI Skill Testing Operations
Blog posts
- Unit Testing: Creating Functional Alexa Skills
- TestFlow: Simulate Conversations with Your Alexa Skill Code to Ease Debugging
- Building Engaging Alexa Skills: Why Testing and Automation Matter