The workflow design has many options available to us, and is used to tell the workflow engine how the approvals and tasks should be processed. When we develop workflows, we do so as generically as possible in order to leave the business logic to the workflow designer. This means that we reduce the need for changes to the code as the business evolves.

The test was to help demonstrate what happens to the status fields as the workflow is processed. This should help us in our own workflow development in understanding the link between events and status changes.