Ideally you should create a regression test suite with test cases for every process in prod. For us we have created a process which simply duplicates the work queue unique items to create automatic test cases , I am open to share the logic though i cant share the process as being internal.
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Vipul Tiwari
Senior Process Simplification and Optimization Designer(Solutions Architect)
Fidelity International
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Vipul Tiwari
Senior Process Simplification Developer
Amazon
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