topic unit testing of a complex process in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/unit-testing-of-a-complex-process/m-p/147904#M103246 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi All,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm going to develop some unit tests using Activiti.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>All of the unit tests I've seen so far make the process to start from the beginning. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately, a process is often made up of several activities and gateways and I'd like to create a unit test which verifies the correct behavior of a single step of the workflow. So, is it possible to set the state of a process to an arbitrary value without completing the preceding tasks?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For example, consider a process which contains three user tasks (Start–&gt;A–&gt;B–&gt;C–&gt;END) and an unit-test which must verify only the correctness of the transition from user task B to C. Is it possible to create a process instance which has B as current activity and an a certain set of execution variables? I don't want to call "complete" on task A , of course.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Claudio </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:47:42 GMT tassoc1 2013-06-17T09:47:42Z unit testing of a complex process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/unit-testing-of-a-complex-process/m-p/147904#M103246 Hi All,I'm going to develop some unit tests using Activiti.All of the unit tests I've seen so far make the process to start from the beginning. Unfortunately, a process is often made up of several activities and gateways and I'd like to create a unit test which verifies the correct behavior of a sin Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:47:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/unit-testing-of-a-complex-process/m-p/147904#M103246 tassoc1 2013-06-17T09:47:42Z Re: unit testing of a complex process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/unit-testing-of-a-complex-process/m-p/147905#M103247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No, unfortunately that is not possible with the current testing code.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, I do agree it is something which is really useful to have. As a matter of fact, I remember doing the same thing years ago on jBPM 3 …</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The tricky thing here is if you want history or not, how you provide the variables of the process, etc. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Would it be OK to have an 'auto-drive' through the process or do you really need to set the execution pointers directly to the stte you want (the latter might be tricky).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I forwarded this thread to the other devs … maybe they have some grand insight here.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:23:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/unit-testing-of-a-complex-process/m-p/147905#M103247 jbarrez 2013-06-17T16:23:38Z