Testing a workflow with the Test action

The Test action in the CloudRadial AutomationAI Designer runs your current draft on a real runner without publishing it or affecting your deployments. This article is for Admins and Owners and explains what a test run produces, where its results appear, and how it stays separate from your deployed versions.

• Running a Test
• What a Test Version Is
• Reading the Results
• Test Runs Stay Out of Deployments

Running a Test

In the Designer, select Test draft in the toolbar. A test runs your current draft on a deployment's runner, so the workflow must already have an active deployment — until one exists the toolbar shows Deploy… in place of the test and run actions. In the test panel you can supply optional Trigger input (optional JSON), pick the Deployment whose runner will execute the draft, and select Run test. You can also test a single node from its editor with Test node.

What a Test Version Is

Testing does not publish your draft. Instead, AutomationAI snapshots the current draft as an immutable test version with a pre-release version label and runs that. This keeps the test reproducible while leaving your editable draft untouched, so you can keep building and test again as often as you like.

Reading the Results

The test panel shows the outcome of the run, including each step's status, its logs, and the output it produced. Use the run-again control in the panel to test the draft again after making edits, or cancel a run that is still in progress.

Test Runs Stay Out of Deployments

Test versions are never treated as the workflow's latest published version and are hidden from the deployment selectors, so a test can never be deployed by accident. Only release versions you create with Publish can be deployed. For the distinction between release and test versions, see the article on workflow versions.