Validate & Simulate

Make sure your BPMN model works as expected.

To ensure that your BPMN model is error-free and executable, Flower offers the possibility to validate, simulate and version your model.

Process validation

Flower can check if your process model align with some basic rules to produce a valid BPMN file. Green markers stick at valid nodes; yellow and red markers indicate warnings and errors.

But Flower is very tolerant: Valid BPMN is not necessary in order to publish a model or to launch a process instance.

Flower token simulation

A picture is worth a thousand words - and a moving token is worth a whole bunch of static BPMN diagrams.

The simple token simulation aids your understanding of a diagrams semantics; to understand wait, join, and split semantics. It is a good starting point to learn BPMN execution in a playful manner.

The token simulation can simulate all BPMN elements except for:

OR Gateway
Transactions
Cancel Events
Compensation Tasks
Compensation Events