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# Testing
We highly recommend working in the style of [test-driven development](http://agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html) when creating probot apps. It is frustrating to constantly create real GitHub events in order to test an app. Redelivering webhooks is possible and can be accessed in your app's [settings](https://github.com/settings/apps) page under the **Advanced** tab. We do offer the above documented `simulate` method to help make this easier; however, by writing your tests first, you can avoid repeatedly recreating actual events from GitHub to check if your code is working.
For our testing examples, we use [jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/), but there are other options that can perform similar operations. Here's an example of creating an app instance and mocking out the GitHub API:
```js
const { Application } = require('probot')
// Requiring our app implementation
const myProbotApp = require('..')
const issuesOpenedPayload = require('./fixtures/issues.opened.json')
describe('My Probot app', () => {
let app, github
beforeEach(() => {
app = new Application()
// Initialize the app based on the code from index.js
app.load(myProbotApp)
// This is an easy way to mock out the GitHub API
github = {
issues: {
createComment: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(Promise.resolve({}))
}
}
// Passes the mocked out GitHub API into out app instance
app.auth = () => Promise.resolve(github)
})
test('creates a comment when an issue is opened', async () => {
// Simulates delivery of an issues.opened webhook
await app.receive({
name: 'issues.opened',
payload: issuesOpenedPayload
})
// This test passes if the code in your index.js file calls `context.github.issues.createComment`
expect(github.issues.createComment).toHaveBeenCalled()
})
})
```
A good testing example from [update-docs](https://github.com/behaviorbot/update-docs) can be found [here](https://github.com/behaviorbot/update-docs/blob/master/test/index.js), and another one from [owners](https://github.com/probot/owners) can be found [here](https://github.com/probot/owners/blob/master/test/owner-notifier.js).