@Rule
public ActivitiRule activitiRule = new ActivitiRule();
@Test
public void startProcess() throws Exception {
RepositoryService repositoryService = activitiRule.getRepositoryService();
repositoryService.createDeployment().addInputStream("process1.bpmn20.xml", new FileInputStream(filename)).deploy();
RuntimeService runtimeService = activitiRule.getRuntimeService();
Map<String, Object> variableMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
variableMap.put("name", "Activiti");
variableMap.put("users", Arrays.asList("one", "two", "three"));
ProcessInstance processInstance = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("process1", variableMap);