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Best practice in doing unit testing of AJO journeys which are highly dependent on read audience activity which contains queries to AEP Segments

  • February 20, 2025
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Hi Team 


Today in our AJO journey testing, we are highly dependent on Profile snapshot update which usually takes 24 hours 

 

We can’t use the Test mode functionality of AJO since we are using Read audience activity which is querying the profile segments 

 

Can anyone from the community please suggest the best approach where we can skip the 24 hour wait of Profile update 

 

with regards 

Richa Chaubey 

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Best answer by DavidKangni

Hi @richachaubey90 

 

I will say the best approach is the test profiles. You can turn an existing profile into a test profile: you can update profiles attributes in the same way as when you create a profile.

 

A simple way to do this is by using an Update Profile action activity in a journey and change the testProfile boolean field from false to true.

 

Your journey will be composed of a Read Audience and an Update Profile activity. You first need to create an audience targeting the profiles you want to turn into test profiles.

Once it's done, AJO test mode You can now go to your draft journey, enable test mode, and test the journey safely only on the test profiles you have designated.

Create a Test Profile 

Thanks,

David

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DavidKangni
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DavidKangniCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
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February 20, 2025

Hi @richachaubey90 

 

I will say the best approach is the test profiles. You can turn an existing profile into a test profile: you can update profiles attributes in the same way as when you create a profile.

 

A simple way to do this is by using an Update Profile action activity in a journey and change the testProfile boolean field from false to true.

 

Your journey will be composed of a Read Audience and an Update Profile activity. You first need to create an audience targeting the profiles you want to turn into test profiles.

Once it's done, AJO test mode You can now go to your draft journey, enable test mode, and test the journey safely only on the test profiles you have designated.

Create a Test Profile 

Thanks,

David

David Kangni
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    richachaubey90Author
    February 20, 2025

    @davidkangni Thank you so much for your response. 
    If suppose, I don’t enable the journey in test mode and just create test profiles can I still run the journey 

    Based on my understanding, The test mode skips the read audience activity.

    As Read audience activity handles required segmentation logic in my journeys

    DavidKangni
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    DavidKangniCommunity Advisor
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    February 21, 2025

    The test mode will not send to your audience but it will allow you to use a profile who qualified for this audience and have the flag testprofile = true to test your journey.

     

    Hope it helps.

    Thanks,

    David

    David Kangni
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      KotiSyamala
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      February 23, 2025

      The purpose of this testing is to verify whether the profiles meet the defined rules and match the intended audience. I recommend conducting this testing in your DEV/QE sandbox using the following approach:

      • Since the final launch journey relies on a batch audience, which requires a 24-hour evaluation period, this may slow down your testing.
      • To accelerate the process, create a copy of the audience with the same rules but set the evaluation type to streaming.
      • Duplicate the journey, and in the test version, replace Read Audience with Audience Qualification.
      • Publish the test journey and ingest test profiles that meet the criteria to validate the expected outcomes.
      • Once all test cases are successfully validated, deploy the final journey to production using the batch audience and the original Read Audience setup.

      Hope this helps to streamline your testing process!

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