Exploratory testing

Habit server exposes web interface on port 7080 where you can manually craft requests with a Postman-like interface and check the visual representation of request processing graph.

To be able to use this feature you have to:

set up the Habit server
set up the project - JUnit tests are optional
create the testing environment through Habit Gradle plugin task :environmentStart
visit the http://server-host:7080 URL in a browser
go to your environment to the request crafting section
define a request, send it and check the graph
make changes to Apache configuration
deploy changes by executing ./gradlew :environmentStart
send the same request again to check the updated processing graph

Dev mode

Manually starting configuration deployment after introducing every change might be a bit tedious. To make things easier a dev mode is supported by the Gradle plugin.

execute ./gradlew :devMode
introduce changes to Apache configuration
save the file
configuration will be deployed automatically
in case of syntax errors an appropriate message will be shown in the terminal

Dev mode is not that useful when executing JUnit tests as it will make sure the newest configuration is deployed before running any test.

Web interface

Request graph is visualized in a way where every request and response is a separate block. Each block contains basic information with full header data available in the tooltip on mouse hover.

In the second tab all parsed logs can be viewed grouped by exchange and log file.