In the testing framework, the method assertExecutionEnded() seems to have a bug in it. It only checks whether a process instance has been deleted from the database. It should also check for the case where a process instance has not been deleted from the database, but has a state of Execution.STATE_ENDED.

It would look something like this:

public void assertExecutionEnded( final String processInstanceId )

{ final ProcessInstance pi = executionService.findProcessInstanceById( processInstanceId ); assertTrue( "Error: an active process instance with id " + processInstanceId + " was found", pi == null || Execution.STATE_ENDED.equals( pi.getState() ) ); }