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Da Vinci Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR) Test Kit

Test Kit Version: 0.14.2
Maturity: Low
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The Da Vinci Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR) Test Kit validates the conformance of DTR SMART app client and payer server implementations to version 2.0.1 of the Da Vinci DTR Implementation Guide.

Status

These tests are a DRAFT intended to allow DTR implementers to perform preliminary checks of their implementations against the DTR IG requirements and provide feedback on the tests. Future versions of these tests may validate other requirements and may change how these are tested.

Test Scope and Limitations

The DTR Test Kit includes suites for the following DTR actors:

  • DTR Payer Server: verifies the ability of a payer server to respond to requests for questionnaires.
  • DTR SMART App: verifies the ability of a SMART app to launch, get questionnaires from a payer server, render them, and allow users to complete them.
  • Full DTR EHR: verifies the ability of a EHR to get questionnaires from a payer server, render them, and allow users to complete them.
  • Light DTR EHR: verifies the ability of a EHR to launch a DTR SMART app and respond to FHIR data gathering requests.

Documentation of the current tests and their limitations can be found in each suite’s description when the tests are run and can also be viewed in the source code:

Test Scope

To validate the behavior of the system under test, Inferno will act as an exchange partner. Specifically,

  • When testing a DTR SMART app client: Inferno will simulate both a payer server that can return questionnaires and a Light DTR EHR that can respond to queries for clinical data used to pre-populate questionnaire responses. Inferno uses the SMART App Launch framework to establish a connection with the app under test, either in EHR Launch or Standalone Launch mode. The app will be expected to initiate requests to Inferno and demonstrate its ability to react to the returned responses. Over the course of these interactions, Inferno will seek to observe the conformant completion of a questionnaire including pre-population, as well as the ability of the app to correctly render the questionnaire and allow users to interact with it.
  • When testing a DTR payer server: Inferno will simulate a DTR app by requesting questionnaires from the server under test. The server will be expected to respond to these requests from Inferno. Over the course of these interactions, Inferno will seek to observe the ability of the server under test to return conformant questionnaires.
  • When testing a Full DTR EHR client: Inferno will simulate a payer server that can return questionnaires. The EHR will be expected to initiate requests to Inferno and demonstrate its ability to react to the returned responses. Over the course of these interactions, Inferno will seek to observe the conformant completion of a questionnaire including fetch, as well as the ability of the app to correctly render the questionnaire and allow users to interact with it.
  • When testing a Light DTR EHR server: Inferno will simulate a DTR SMART app that tested servers can launch and that will request FHIR data from and create and update QuestionnaireResponse and Task instances on the server under test. Over the course of these interactions, Inferno will seek to observe the ability of the server under test to conformantly serve as a FHIR server for a DTR SMART App.

Known Limitations

  • SMART app tests:
    • Some questionnaire features, including adaptive questionnaires, are not yet tested.
    • Inferno uses a single FHIR endpoint to simulate both the payer and the EHR.
  • Payer server tests:
    • Inferno checks that CQL is used for pre-population in the questionnaires returned by the payer server, but does not currently validate the correctness or executability of that CQL.
  • Full EHR tests:
    • Some questionnaire features are not yet tested.
    • Non-standard approach to accessing QuestionnaireResponse instances for validation.
  • Light EHR tests:
    • fhirContext not tested as a part of the Light EHR’s SMART App launch process.

Reporting Issues

Please report any issues with this set of tests in the GitHub Issues section of the open-source code repository.

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