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.
Your test environment must include records for 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 want to 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 e-mail 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.