Stream: implementers
Topic: Compliance Testing
Pascal Brandt (Dec 22 2017 at 17:44):
Does anyone know if there's an "official" test suite or tool that we can use to make sure our server implementation is standards compliant?
Josh Mandel (Dec 22 2017 at 17:55):
There is not an "official" suite, but there are tools from MITRE, Aegis, and (for a very specific patient API use case) my team at Harvard.
Josh Mandel (Dec 22 2017 at 17:55):
Lloyd McKenzie (Dec 22 2017 at 18:03):
Note that you can be "standards" compliant as a server by exposing a "metadata" endpoint that declares that your server doesn't do anything. Compliance is generally only a useful thing to declare in the context of a specific implementation guide that sets expectations for what your system must do. (That doesn't mean that you can't test for base-level conformance with FHIR in terms of syntax, etc. It just means that such declarations aren't a meaningful way to evaluate the likelihood of interoperability.)
John Moehrke (Dec 22 2017 at 18:32):
Where your use-case is one that IHE has profiled (see http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Category:FHIR) There are some test tools available and others being developed http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/IHE_Test_Tool_Information#Index_to_IHE_Test_Tools
Pascal Brandt (Dec 22 2017 at 18:44):
Thanks everyone, much appreciated!
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