Migrating sharepoint workflows from dev to test to production

We are new to sharepoint and creating a sharepoint 2010 environment. The first project is a site with 23 different workflows. We have created the site with the workflows in our development environment using SharePoint Designer. To migrate the workflows to our test environment, we exported all 23 workflows using SharePoint Designer into 23 .wsp files. We then imported these into the solution gallery in our test environment开发者_StackOverflow中文版 and activated them on the test site.

While this worked, it was cumbersome and took a lot of time. Is there a better way? I have tried searching online, and so far have failed to find anything. How do you handle your migration from dev to test to production? Do you recreate in each environment? Is there a 3rd party that offers a solution or tooling?

I don't know about a 3rd party tool, but I always prefer working in Visual Studio than SharePoint Designer + UI. If you rename your *.wsp files to *.cab files, you can grab the deployable contents of the *.wsp and put them into a single solution which will generate a single *.wsp file.

Also, using Visual Studio will allow you to do other neat things like automatically associate your workflows with specific named lists via a Feature Receiver.