Testing your solution

Before you deploy your solution into production, you can test it to verify that the solution components are working correctly by deploying it into a development environment.

To validate and test your solution:

1. From the Manage Solutions page, click Commit to make all of your edits and updates available for deployment.
2. From the Manage Solutions page, click Deploy in the solution summary to deploy the solution to your project area.
   Deployment is a process that runs in the background. You can work on other solutions while the solution is being deployed.

   If multiple users are editing the same solution, a list of locked items is shown, and you are prompted to continue to deploy the solution, or to cancel deploying the solution. If you continue to deploy the solution, it does not contain any uncommitted changes.

   The Deploy action deploys only the artifacts that changed since the last time you deployed the solution. In some situations, you must redeploy all solution artifacts. For example, you must redeploy all solution artifacts in the following instances:

   • You modified or added a globalization file, one of the Resource.js files, for the solution in the development object store.
   • You updated the solution workflow file (global XPDL), but changed nothing else in the solution.
   • The solution is an older version that was created in IBM® Case Manager. You must redeploy all solution artifacts to ensure that when you click Test, the runtime URL includes the baw desktop ID rather than the old icm desktop ID.
   • The desktop ID associated with the project area is changed. You must redeploy the solution artifacts to ensure that when you click Test, the runtime URL includes the new desktop ID.

   To redeploy all solution artifacts, click the Click to see more actions icon and select Redeploy All. After you have redeployed all solution artifacts, click the Actions icon and select Refresh Solutions.

   Note: In an IBM Workflow Center augmented environment, redeploying all legacy case solutions updates the default case solution playback Case Client from the previous IBM Case Manager desktop to the new IBM Business Automation Workflow desktop.
3. Click Test to open Case Client.
   1. The first time that you test your solution expand your solution in the list of available solutions, click Manage Roles, and add yourself as a user to one or more roles.
   2. Click Add Case to add a case to the solution. Verify that the preconditions for the case are met.
   3. Open and complete a work item from the in-basket to verify that the page works correctly.
   4. Verify that case types, tasks, and roles are created and working.
      To verify that the other components in the solution work correctly, open and test other pages and cases. You can search for cases by going to the case pages and searching for a case by date.