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Workflow Simulation Architecture

After defining your workflow process, you can test it using the Process Simulator. Testing your workflow process before migrating it to the production environment verifies that resulting actions are accurate and useful and the results are exactly what you need.

Figure 5 illustrates the workflow simulation architecture.

Figure 5. Workflow Simulation Architecture

Architectural components for workflow simulation include:

1. The Process Simulator accesses object definitions that are part of the workflow process or that are referenced by the workflow process.
2. Depending on the configuration you specify in the workflow definition, user data in the run-time database, such as data that resides in various fields of an opportunity record, is accessed and / or manipulated during the simulation.

When the workflow process is run from the Process Simulator, it runs in the application object manager. Actual invocation of the process can be run in the application object manager or in the Workflow Process Manager server session, depending on specific parameters.

For information about Process Simulator usage, see About the Testing Tools.