Automated process flow testing for each process in JBPM Business-central

[Maria Prabudass]

Can we conduct automated process flow testing for each process in JBPM Businesscentral, both for "direct flow" and for "processes that need input to progress" without manual intervention? 

Are there any available options for this? How to proceed?

[Richard Bourner]

You can use the jBPM Java API to do it.  This is typically done as part of unit and non-regression testing and can be achieved for both straight-through processes and long-live processes (for instance with async tasks).

[Maria Prabudass]

Thank You Richard. Kindly share the jBPM JAVA API details you mentioned in your email for my reference.

Regards,

Maria Prabhudoss

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[Richard Bourner]

Assuming you are using jBPM 7.x, you can find plenty of examples of unit tests in the Community repo [1].

Also, if you do not want to use the Java APIs to do your testing, you can use the REST APIs but it requires to deploy your projects/processes first.

For both cases, you would not do the testing within Business Central but with an external tool (IDE for Java, Postman or script for REST, etc.).

[1] https://github.com/kiegroup/jbpm

[Maria Prabudass]

Hi Richard,

Could you please provide insights into whether "Business Process Simulation" can help in achieving automated process flows? 

Regards,

Maria Prabhudoss

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[Richard Bourner]

I believe you are talking about a feature of the old legacy designer.  I do not think it exists with the Stunner version.

But as a general practice, it is probably not best to depend on Business Central to do automated tests, not only for CI/CD integration reasons, but also because of the future of Business Central.