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Testing the Workflow Integration Process

When you have finished defining your integration workflow process, you can use the Workflow Process Simulator to test its behavior.

The Workflow Process Simulator, included in the Workflow Process Manager, allows you to validate your processes before deploying them in production environments.

When you simulate an integration process that performs some external action—for example, the Export Account (File) workflow writes an XML file to a disk location—you can verify the end result by checking if the output object exists, or if a predetermined event has occurred.

NOTE:  You can also enable detailed client logging and use the /s option for creating SQL spool scripts. This option provides more detailed information when running the integration workflow process in the Workflow Process Simulator. For details, see Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

To test the workflow processes described in this chapter using the Workflow Process Simulator, you must export them to an XML file from the Workflow Processes view in the Siebel client, and then import the XML file into the Workflow Processes list in Siebel Tools. The Workflow Process Simulator runs from Siebel Tools.