I've been working on a workflow that is relatively simple but it should still be a real work example; and I've come up with the following where a workflow is kicked of for an artifact - let's say a war application.

The workflow deploys the artifact into a Dev, QA, Stage or Prod Environment as it proceeds through the process. Different groups receive a notification that the artifact is deployed and that they can proceed with their testing. Depending on the outcome of the testing PASS/FAIL the process proceeds or ends.

Deployment stati are captured as classifications on the artifact along the way:

DEV

     TEST

     PASS

     FAIL

QA

     TEST

     PASS

     FAIL

STAGE

     TEST

     PASS

     FAIL

PROD

What do you guys think; is this a realistic scenario?

- I wish there I could add the 'log state into the PASS/FAIL node, just as it is set set to DEV_TEST at deploy time. Still researching that one.

- Do we need to add a validation step?

- Do we need testing in PROD?

- Do we need to loop back to DEV on FAIL?

- Do we need to undeploy on fail?

Let the discussion begin..

Cheers,

--Kurt