Got some unit test failures when I am deploying from sandbox to sandbox.
They only fail when I specify "RunLocalTests" as pasrt of the deployment. Says it can't find an applicable approval process - the process definitely exists in the target org and isn't part of the deployment package
Why would a deployment test run be different from a "normal" test run?
Can you check if the Approval Process you are deploying or the ones which are active in the production(target org) have been configured to allow all appropriate "Initial Submitters"? I believe in the recent releases Salesforce has enforced a new restriction, which restricts who can submit to specific approval processes and if you've not configured this, you will get the error message shown in the screenshot.
I would suggest looking in Source and Target Org and go through those Approval Process on which you are getting those errors.
Setup>Approval Processes> Approval Processes and select the object(s) containing active approval processes and click on the relevant Approval Process Name.
From the Edit dropdown select Initial Submitters
Ensure that Record Creator (or expected user) is included in the list of Allowed Submitters
I have seen tests pass using the Tooling API and fail when using the Metadata API. Deployments would be using Metadata, could you be testing in lower sandbox using Tooling?
