Assessing Approaches for Evaluating Remote Heterogeneous Applications

Published

July 13, 2009

Author(s)

Leonard E. Gebase, Robert D. Snelick

Abstract

We examine several methods for testing disparate, heterogeneous systems that intercommunicate through message exchanges governed by a set of well defined message exchange rules. Rather than basing our assessment on a set of abstract applications, we will look at a specific set of healthcare applications that exhibit these characteristics. We will then assert that the specific findings can be generalized and applied to a broader class of applications. The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)organization defines a technical framework for implementing a broad range of existing healthcare standards. These standards include HL7, DICOM, CDA and others. Implementations of a single standard share a common protocol for the exchange of messages, but direct message exchanges among different standards implementations are generally not possible. IHE,nevertheless, is interested in an environment made up of this diverse set of applications, and we will investigate various approaches to evaluate the behavior of implementations that make up this environment.

Proceedings Title

The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09)

Conference Dates

July 13-17, 2009

Conference Location

Las Vegas, NV

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Automated Testing, Conformance, Interoperability, Test Agents, Testing Framework

Citation

Gebase, L. and Snelick, R. (2009), Assessing Approaches for Evaluating Remote Heterogeneous Applications, The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09), Las Vegas, NV, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903043 (Accessed September 10, 2024)