The functionality for debugging business processes is capable of conducting testing and debugging focused on business processes.

You can use this functionality to debug business processes in the development environment without deploying HCSC components in the execution environment. Development is more efficient because business processes can be defined and debugged in the same environment.

By debugging a business process, you can check how processing of the business process is proceeding between activities, and also check and update the contents of variables used in the activities.

The following figure shows an example of a window used for debugging business processes and the usable functionality.

Figure 1-11 Example of a window used for debugging business processes and the usable functionality

You can use the following functionality for debugging business processes:

• Step execution and resume
  You can specify a breakpoint in an activity to interrupt the processing of a business process at any time. In the interrupted business process, you can continue sequential processing while interrupting each activity.
  
• Displaying the debug information
  You can display the name of the business process that you are debugging, and also names of activities.
  
• Confirming variables and correlation sets
  You can confirm the values of variables and correlation sets used in business processes.
  
• Updating variables
  You can change the values of variables used in business processes, and then apply them to business processes.
  
• XPath evaluation
  You can evaluate the validity of the conditional expression specified in the switch activity and the assign activity.
  

The functionality for debugging business processes also allows you to emulate services.