HL7 DSTU testing toolkit
Contents
Introduction
This is a project hosted by the ICTC as part of its Implementation workstream
- co-chairs handbook
- DSTU comments page - http://www.hl7.org/dstucomments/index.cfm
- Project Lifecycle Taskforce
The HL7 development framework (HDF) provides guidance on how to develop a standard. However, the HDF does not provide guidance on how best to evaluate the standard. Without guidance on how to evaluate a standard it is the burden of each technical committee (TC) to determine there own methods of proving a standard is fit for purpose. In addition, implementers have no clear way to claim that a system confirms to an HL7 V3 standard
The goal of this project is to provide guidance to implementers on when a HL7 V3 standard is stable enough to implement and a mechanism to ensure a system confirms to an HL7 V3 standard. During the course of this project we may need to make a distinction on when an HL7 V3 standard is ready for early adoption compared to mainstream adoption.
This project does not directly address the testing of locally produced implementation guides, but it may inform such activity. This may become the subject of a future project.
Early Adopters of project outputs
- RCRIM projects
- ITS SIG projects
- Wrappers R2 project
Deliverables
- Changes to co-chairs handbook
- Guidelines for running DSTU
- Templates for reporting test results
- examples of best practice
- Provide guidance and documentation to prove that a HL7 V3 standard fit for purpose and stable enough for implementers
Document a testing process that can be followed to establish whether a standard meets these requirements Create artefacts and templates to record how an HL7 V3 standard meets the balloted business requirements
- Provide guidance and documentation to prove that a system, either a consumer or producer, conforms or partially confirms to an HL7 v3 standard
Project Plan
- Produce project scope statement
Conference calls
This project is discussed on the regular implementation calls http://www.hl7.org/concalls/index.cfm?action=home.calldetail&wg_concall_id=3289&workingcalendardate=06/04/2007&listofwgids=
