Higson Studio provides a testing module for business rules. This means that every user, before publishing changes, can test whether the rules work as desired and check the impact on other rules by using a mass tester to perform regression tests. For convenience, input data for mass tests can be prepared in an Excel file and imported to Higson.

There is no limit to the number of users working simultaneously. Hence, every user has their session(register of changes) and works on the common environment applying their private changes. Those changes are not visible to other users before publishing. There is also a warning message if two users start to modify the same rule.

Usually, the process of development includes more than one environment, which creates a need to provision the configuration of rules. Higson provides a mechanism of snapshots that export the current configuration to text files. These files can be stored in an external repository or can be easily imported into another environment.

Higson can be used independently in many different processes of the same organization by creating separate profiles in Higson Studio. This makes it possible to use the best features of Higson by different teams at the same time, without affecting other business segments.

Higson Studio provides a controlled way of defining inputs, which may either be simple types or complex structures. The rules use this context to reference actual business data needed to evaluate a decision.

Higson application uses SQL databases for storing rule configurations. Supported databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

Special mode to speed up the initial phase of the development. When the developer connects the rules to the application, this mode can be activated to skip the publishing phase of the rules. Each change is immediately visible to the outside world.

Higson comes with a persistence engine that is based on the context definition. Its usage is optional, but it speeds up the development process of Java applications. Users can configure their object structure in Higson and let it manage the read/write operations. This is the implementation of the ORM concept.