This is an Inferno test kit for the Da Vinci Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD) FHIR Implementation Guide v2.0.1.
It contains test suites to test the two actors defined by the CRD specification:
- CRD Client: responsible for initiating CDS Hooks calls and consuming received decision support. It is also responsible for returning data requested by the CRD Server needed to provide that decision support.
- CRD Server: responsible for responding to CDS Hooks calls and responding with appropriate decision support.
This test kit is open source and freely available for use or adoption by the Health IT community including EHR vendors, health app developers, and testing labs.
These tests are a DRAFT intended to allow CRD implementers to perform preliminary checks of their implementations against the CRD IG requirements and provide feedback on the tests. Future versions of these tests may validate other requirements and may change how these are tested.
Additional details on the IG requirements that underlie this test kit can be found in this CRD testing note. The document includes the requirements extracted from the IG and specifies the ones that are not testable.
Documentation of the current tests and their limitations can be found in each suite's (client and server) description when the tests are run.
At a high-level, the tests check:
- Client Suite:
- The ability of a CRD client to initiate CDS Hooks calls.
- The ability of a CRD client to support the FHIR interactions defined in the implementation guide.
- Server Suite:
- The ability of a CRD server to return a valid response when invoking its discovery endpoint.
- The ability of a CRD server to return a valid response when invoking a supported hook, including producing the required response types across all hooks invoked.
- Client Suite:
- This suite does not implement any payer business logic, so the responses to hook calls are simple hard-coded responses.
- The tests cannot verify that a client is able to consume the received decision support. Testers should consider this requirement to be verified through attestation and should not represent their systems as having passed these tests if this requirement is not met.
- Hook configuration is not tested.
- Server Suite:
- Inferno is unable to determine what requests will result in specific kinds of responses from the server under test (e.g., what will result in Instructions being returned vs. Coverage Information). As a result, the tester must supply the request bodies that will cause the system under test to return the desired response types.
- The ability of a CRD server to request additional FHIR resources is not tested.
- Hook configuration is not tested.
Use either of the following methods to run the suites within this test kit. If you would like to try out the tests but don’t have a CRD implementation, the test home pages include instructions for trying out the tests, including
- For server testing: a public CRD server reference implementation (code on github)
- For client testing: a public CRD client reference implementation (code on github)
Detailed instructions can be found in the suite descriptions when the tests are run.
You can run the CRD test kit via the ONC Inferno website by choosing the “Da Vinci Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD) Test Kit”.
- Download the source code from this repository.
- Open a terminal in the directory containing the downloaded code.
- In the terminal, run
setup.sh. - In the terminal, run
run.sh. - Use a web browser to navigate to
http://localhost.
We welcome feedback on the tests, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Validation logic, such as potential bugs, lax checks, and unexpected failures.
- Requirements coverage, such as requirements that have been missed and tests that necessitate features that the IG does not require.
- User experience, such as confusing or missing information in the test UI.
Please report any problems with these tests in Github Issues. The team may also be reached in the #inferno Zulip stream.
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