We are witnessing the bot industry grow in leaps and bounds with new bots being created every day.  New platforms/tools are emerging to help bot developers in prototyping, designing and developing bots. All these tools are making the bot development process very easy for developers but guess what? There is still one area which takes a considerable amount of time and effort – testing of the bot.

Chatbots have slowly started becoming mainstream. They have become more adaptable and a plethora of brands and businesses have started showing faith in their application.  As the ecosystem evolves, one of the key pioneers of this space, Facebook, has started rolling out new features to make chatbots even more powerful.. Gupshup has always stayed aligned with facebook’s features and has now launched serverless web views. This feature enables chatbots to capture multiple user data through forms.

We at Gupshup are happy to announce our partnership with Google to bring voice-activated actions on Google Home. Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant that can play music, activate smart devices, give you the latest traffic updates, and also answer certain questions.

In the tech industry, 2016 can easily be described as the year of the chatbot. The popularity of chatbots has surged in the last few months as businesses have quickly adopted this paradigm. With users spending a majority of their time on messaging apps, chatbots provide an instant, non-intrusive and effective way for businesses to connect with their users.