Google Actions

Voice Assistant

End-to-End Voice Assistant Testing: Alexa Skills, Google Actions, and Wake-Word Detection

Voice assistants are distributed systems. A user says "Hey Alexa, reorder coffee" and the following chain executes: wake-word detection, audio capture, STT transcription, natural language understanding, skill dispatch, business logic, TTS synthesis, and audio playback. Each link can fail independently. End-to-end testing covers the full

Testing

Google Actions Testing: pytest, Local Fulfillment, and the Actions Console

Google Actions testing spans three environments: the Actions Console simulator for interactive exploration, ngrok tunnels for local fulfillment development, and automated pytest suites for webhook logic and conversation flow regression. This guide covers all three with production-ready code. Google Actions (built with Actions Builder or the Actions SDK v3)