Observables testing Purpose of Observables project Testing procedure

Observables testing Purpose of Observables project Testing procedure Scope of testing End-points Resources Staff Contributions Tools Deliverables

Considerations Unit testing (Obs = unit, ranges = units) vs. System testing Acceptance test?

Purpose of Observables project Use cases Coding of laboratory content …

Testing procedure (gross list) Observables model (changes during test? ) Review of current content (e. g. David Markwell's 200 x review) Production/selection of test cases/test domains Production of a test branch Distributed authoring Support for adding e. g. primitives in range hierarchies? Consequential modeling, e. g. resulting retirements of e. g. lab procedure content Test of using test branch

Scope of testing (gross list!) Division of labour, outsourcing of content development (tested in 2009) Stability of observables model (somehow tested in 2009) Reproducibility of observables model Coverage of the observables model Completeness/usability of range hierarchies Impact on current content Redundancy, retirement, remodeling/reauthoring, etc.

Scope of testing (gross list!) External testing Usability of new content Potential for post-coordination

Scope of testing (gross list!) Laboratory medicine domain Chemistry, Microbiology, … Requests, reports, lists Commonly used cases – specifically hard cases Content currently in Snomed CT – content not in Snomed CT

Resources IHTSDO staff, terminologists Member and organisation contribution Tools Specific tools for LOINC, NPU mapping IHTSDO Workbench? Protégé?

Deliverables Observables model v 2 Changes made Any review of existing content Test domains and/or test case description Test branch Additions, changes Reference sets Test use Summary