diff --git a/t/balancer.t b/t/balancer.t
index 803632ef7..27a394dc0 100644
--- a/t/balancer.t
+++ b/t/balancer.t
@@ -1,27 +1,38 @@
 use lib 't';
-use Test::APIcast 'no_plan';
+use Test::APIcast::Blackbox 'no_plan';
 
-$ENV{TEST_NGINX_HTTP_CONFIG} = "$Test::APIcast::path/http.d/*.conf";
-$ENV{RESOLVER} = '127.0.1.1:5353';
-
-env_to_nginx(
-    'RESOLVER'
-);
-master_on();
 run_tests();
 
 __DATA__
 
 === TEST 1: round robin does not leak memory
 Balancing different hosts does not leak memory.
---- http_config
-  lua_package_path "$TEST_NGINX_LUA_PATH";
-  init_by_lua_block {
-    require('resty.balancer.round_robin').cache_size = 1
+--- configuration
+{
+    "services": [
+     {
+        "id": 42,
+        "backend_version": 1,
+        "backend_authentication_type": "service_token",
+        "backend_authentication_value": "token-value",
+        "proxy": { 
+          "api_backend": "http://test:$TEST_NGINX_SERVER_PORT/",
+          "proxy_rules": [ { "pattern" : "/", "http_method" : "GET",
+              "metric_system_name" : "hits", "delta" : 2 } ]
+        }
+     }
+  ]
+}
+--- backend
+  location /transactions/authrep.xml {
+    content_by_lua_block {
+      ngx.exit(200)
+    }
   }
---- config
+--- upstream
   location = /t {
     content_by_lua_block {
+      require('resty.balancer.round_robin').cache_size = 1
       local round_robin = require('resty.balancer.round_robin')
       local balancer = round_robin.new()
 
@@ -32,6 +43,6 @@ Balancing different hosts does not leak memory.
     }
   }
 --- pipelined_requests eval
-[ "GET /t", "GET /t" ]
+[ "GET /t?user_key=value", "GET /t?user_key=value" ]
 --- response_body eval
 [ "1", "1" ]