Workflow process testing

Design your test environment so that it is a copy of your production environment. Your test database must include enough data and users so that you can thoroughly test each workflow process.

You use the applications in the Integration module to migrate a workflow process from your test environment to your production environment:

• Validate, enable, and activate each workflow process in a test environment that contains sufficient sample data to test the process. Set up your environment to include test users who can receive assignments and notifications.
• Route records through all possible paths in the process, including all possible paths through any subprocesses. You might create test plans to help you verify that you have tested all possible routes in a process.
• Verify that assignments appear in the Workflow Inbox for users, and that email notifications are being generated.
• Determine whether the process is complete, or whether additional steps must be added.
• Determine that you have configured the process to make the necessary assignments, notifications, and so forth, that are required by your business process. If you have not configured the process, you must modify the process.
• Make any necessary additions, modifications, or deletions and retest the process.
• Use the integration applications to export your tested processes from your test environment to your production environment.