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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex Create custom conversational and voice interfaces for your Amazon Echo devices and web platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993487
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Williams Sam Williams
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Preface 1. Understanding Chatbots FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with AWS and Amazon CLI 3. Creating Your First Alexa Skill 4. Connecting Your Alexa Skills to External APIs 5. Building Your First Amazon Lex Chatbot 6. Connecting a Lex Bot to DynamoDB 7. Publishing Your Chatbot to Facebook, Slack, Twilio, and HTTP 8. Improving the User Experience for Your Bots 9. Review and Continued Development 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A 1. Appendix B

Debugging Lambdas

If you have found that the problem is not with your Alexa skill or Lex chatbot, there might be a problem with your Lambda. Before you start changing things in your code, it is often a good idea to create a test in the Lambda console. This should represent the request that is being sent by Alexa or Lex. Use this test to see whether it is your Lambda that is at fault or it works as expected.

If your test is unsuccessful, look in the logs for the error messages. This can often point you to the root of the problem.

Here are some things to check when trying to debug a Lambda:

  • Your Lambda has all of the required packages installed
  • Your permissions are correct
  • All of your variables are correctly defined
  • Your Lambda code is correct
  • Everything your Lambda calls is working
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