PairingBot

Slack bot to track pairing stats of agile pair programming team via git commits.

Bot integration details

• Create a slack custom integration for the bot (Slack Bot).
• Start the application with slack bot token.
• Invite the PairingBot to commit channel which is configured with incoming webhook from git.
• PairingBot listens to message from git webhooks and track pairing stats from commit message.
• Acceptable commit message samples
  • [StoryCardNumber] [Person1/Person2] commit message description
  • [StoryCardNumber] [Person1] commit message description
  • [Person1/Person2] commit message description
  • [StoryCardNumber] Person1/Person2: commit message description
  • [StoryCardNumber] Person1/Person2 - commit message description
• Get pairing information with the message pairing stats? as direct_message or with direct_mention to @PairingBot.
• Creare your team members list with set member count and add member commands.
• You can also do manual update to pairing matrix for the day with add solo and add pair commands.
• Works right out of the box, just keep calm and do pair programming.

Supported messages

• hello, hi
• list members
• set member count <count>
• add member <name>
• remove member <name>
• add solo <name>
• add pair <name1,name2>
• pairing stats?
• uptime, who are you?
• bye, see you later, tata, ciao, adieu

Install and Setup instructions

After cloning the repository and running npm install or yarn install inside, you can use the following command to start the bot.

token=<slack-token> <npm start / yarn start>

Pull requests are welcome!

Future extenstions

• Interactive conversations
• Graphical reports
• Pair switching reminders

License

MIT