# Connect Slack

URL: https://testmode.ai/docs/slack/

> Connect a project to a Slack channel and Self-driving's questions and its verdicts on failed runs arrive there, one thread each. Reply in the thread to answer a question or teach it something about your app.

A project can send what Self-driving hands back to one Slack channel. Each item that needs someone becomes a thread in the channel, and a reply in the thread reaches Testmode: it answers a question, or it is kept as a note that every later exploration, review and investigation reads.

Slack comes with every paid plan, like Self-driving.

## Connect a channel

You need the Editor role or above.

1. Click the gear beside **Self-driving** in the sidebar to open **Self-driving settings**.

2. Under **Where it tells you**, click **Connect Slack**.

3. Slack asks you to sign in to your workspace and pick the channel Testmode posts to. Allow it.

4. You come back to the settings page, which says **Slack is connected** and names the channel.

Each project connects to one channel. To post somewhere else, disconnect and connect again.

## What is posted

Everything that arrives in the [Inbox](https://testmode.ai/docs/inbox/) as needing someone or ready to review:

- Self-driving's **questions**;
- its verdicts on failed runs: **bug**, **intended change**, **test problem**, **environment**, and a **flaky** test from its third time.

What needs nobody is not posted: Self-driving's updates about what it did, and flaky failures it set aside. An exploration's suggestions are reviewed in the app.

## Reply in Slack

Reply in an item's thread:

- **To a question**: your reply answers it and closes it, as if you had answered in the Inbox. A question that offers answers lists them numbered; reply with just the number to pick that answer.
- **To anything else**: your reply is kept as a note on the item, which every later run reads.

Testmode acknowledges your reply in the thread. Replies from bots and edits to earlier messages are ignored.

## Disconnect

In **Self-driving settings**, under **Where it tells you**, click **Disconnect**. Nothing more is posted, and Testmode's access to the channel is removed. Threads already in the channel stay.

## Related

- [Work through the Inbox](https://testmode.ai/docs/inbox/): Everything Slack receives, in the app.
- [Turn on Self-driving](https://testmode.ai/docs/self-driving/): Its settings, where Slack is connected.
- [Email run reports](https://testmode.ai/docs/email-run-reports/): Run results by email instead.