Build and test the first flow
Implement the smallest useful automation and verify each transformation before enabling real records.
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Build and test the first flow.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a disabled but fully tested workflow with field mappings, six test cases, expected results, and defect log.What this lesson is really solving.
Implement the smallest useful automation and verify each transformation before enabling real records. This is lesson 4 because later decisions depend on a disabled but fully tested workflow with field mappings, six test cases, expected results, and defect log. Build like a pipeline: test one joint at a time before turning on full pressure. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
Build like a pipeline: test one joint at a time before turning on full pressure.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Configure the exact trigger and filter so drafts, edits, or unrelated records cannot start the flow.
- 2
Map fields explicitly, transform formats deliberately, and include a unique key before the first write action.
- 3
Run one known-good test, inspect every step’s input and output, then test boundary, duplicate, and invalid records.
- 4
Compare the destination with expected results and record test IDs, timestamps, screenshots, and defects.
See the standard in context.
The coordinator learns that all-day events interpret dates in UTC, corrects the timezone transformation, and reruns the full test set before launch. The learner saves a disabled but fully tested workflow with field mappings, six test cases, expected results, and defect log and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a disabled but fully tested workflow with field mappings, six test cases, expected results, and defect log.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Testing only the happy path, seeing one success message, and assuming destination fields and duplicate behavior are correct.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: All defined test cases produce the expected destination, status, notification, or controlled rejection with no duplicates.
Your deliverable
A disabled but fully tested workflow with field mappings, six test cases, expected results, and defect log.
Watch for this
Testing only the happy path, seeing one success message, and assuming destination fields and duplicate behavior are correct.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
All defined test cases produce the expected destination, status, notification, or controlled rejection with no duplicates.
Quick knowledge check
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