Document Subscription for Mobile (DSUBm), published by IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.1-current built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/ITI.DSUBm/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Test Plan

DSUBm specifies actors and transactions to grant functionalities for subscribing for patient document for RESTfull application. The transactions between actors specify semantics of the data exchanged. The DSUBm test plan focuses on these semantics and on the expected actions on both client-side and server-side actors.

Introduction

The DSUBm implementation could occur in Document Sharing environments like MHDS and XDS, as far as an interface for DSUB, as shown in Section 1:54.6 Cross-Profile Considerations. But DSUBm is not limited to these profiles. Also, the systems implementation of DSUBm actors could be different according with their own implementation scenario.

Some possible scenarios of DSUBm implementation are presented in the Use Case Section in Volume 1.

Overall test plan leverages the Profiles and Examples shown on the Artifacts Summary. The Profiles listed are describing the constraints that would be adhered to by actors claiming conformance to this implementation guide. Thus, any applicable Resources that are known to have been published by an app or server REQUIRED be conformant to these profiles as appropriate.

The Examples listed in Example Instances are example instances. Some are conformant to the profiles. Other examples that either assist with the structure of the examples (e.g., Patient and Encounter) or are examples that SHOULD be able to handle in various ways.

High-level Test Scope

Resource Subscription ITI-110 Transaction

Resource Notification Subscriber

The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL be able to show that is able to communicate to a Resource Notification Broker to create or update subscriptions as indicated in ITI-110, for all the subscription topic defined in the basic implementation (i.e., no option supported). The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL send a message defined in accordance to the message semantics, process the response message and follow the expected actions defined for the messages in the following interactions:

• Subscribe
• Update

Resource Notification Broker

The Resource Notification Broker SHALL be able to show that it is able to respond to a Resource Notification Subscriber that is creating or updating subscriptions as indicated in ITI-110, for all the subscription topics defined in the basic implementation (i.e., no option supported). The Resource Notification Broker SHALL process the request message received, follow the expected actions defined and produce a related response message in accordance to the message semantics for the messages in the following interactions:

• Subscribe
• Update

Resource Publish ITI-111 Transaction

Resource Notification Publisher

The Resource Notification Publisher SHALL be able to show that it is able to communicate to a Resource Notification Broker indicating that an event as occurred, as indicated in ITI-111. The Resource Notification Publisher SHALL send a message defined in accordance to the message semantics, process the response message and follow the expected actions defined for the messages in the interaction.

Resource Notification Broker

The Resource Notification Broker, if supporting transaction ITI-111, SHALL be able to show that is able to respond to a Resource Notification Publisher that is communicating a publish event as indicated in ITI-111. The Resource Notification Broker SHALL process the request message received, follow the expected actions defined and produce a related response message in accordance to the message semantics for the messages in the interaction.

Resource Notify ITI-112 Transaction

Resource Notification Broker

The Resource Notification Broker SHALL be able to show that it is able to send the notifications messages to a Resource Notification Recipient as indicated in ITI-112. The Resource Notification Broker SHALL send a message defined in accordance to the message semantics, process the response message and follow the expected actions defined for the messages in the following interactions:

• Event Notification
• Handshake Notification and if supported:
• Heartbeat Notification
• Subscription Deactivation Notification

The Resource Notification Broker SHOULD demonstrate to follow what is indicated in Handling Errors in Notification or if something more specific is implemented.

Resource Notification Recipient

The Resource Notification Recipient SHALL be able to show that it is able to respond to a Resource Notification Broker that is sending notification messages as indicated in ITI-112. The Resource Notification Recipient SHALL process the request message received, follow the expected actions defined and produce a related response message in accordance to the message semantics for the messages in the following interactions:

• Event Notification
• Handshake Notification
• Heartbeat Notification
• Subscription Deactivation Notification

Resource Subscription Search ITI-113 Transaction

Resource Notification Subscriber

The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL be able to show that it is able to communicate to a Resource Notification Broker for searching the existing subscriptions as indicated in ITI-113. The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL send a message defined in accordance to the message semantics, process the response message and follow the expected actions defined for the messages in the following interactions:

• Subscription Search
• Subscription Read and if supported:
• Subscription Status Search
• Subscription Events Search

Resource Notification Broker

The Resource Notification Broker SHALL be able to show that it is able to respond to a Resource Notification Subscriber that is searching the existing subscriptions as indicated in ITI-113. The Resource Notification Broker SHALL process the request message received, follow the expected actions defined and produce a related response message in accordance to the message semantics for the messages in the following interactions:

• Subscription Search
• Subscription Read
• Subscription Status Search and if supported:
• Subscription Events Search

Resource SubscriptionTopic Search ITI-114 Transaction

Resource Notification Subscriber

The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL be able to show that it is able to communicate to a Resource Notification Broker for searching the subscription topics available as indicated in ITI-114. The Resource Notification Subscriber SHALL send a message defined in accordance to the message semantics, process the response message and follow the expected actions defined for the messages in the following interactions:

• SubscriptionTopic Search
• SubscriptionTopic Read

Resource Notification Broker

The Resource Notification Broker SHALL be able to show that it is able to respond to a Resource Notification Subscriber that is searching the subscription topics available as indicated in ITI-114. The Resource Notification Broker SHALL process the request message received, follow the expected actions defined and produce a related response message in accordance to the message semantics for the messages in the following interactions:

• SubscriptionTopic Search
• SubscriptionTopic Read

Option

In case that an actor declares support to one or more option, then the test plan SHALL include for every transaction a specific test for every topic and every event for each topic inside that supported option.

Unit Test Procedure

Unit Tests in this context is where an SUT is tested against a simulator or validator. A simulator is a implementation of an actor that is designed specifically to test the opposite pair actor. The simulator might be a reference implementation or MAY be a specially designed test-bench. Where a reference implementation is used the negative tests are harder to simulate. A validator is a implementation that can check conformance. A validator MAY be a simulator, but MAY also be a standalone tool used to validate only a message encoding. Some reference implementations MAY be able to validate to a StructureDefinition profile, but often these do not include sufficient constraints given the overall actor conformance criteria.

Integration Test Procedure

Integration Tests in this context is where two SUT of paired actors test against each other. In this case, the subset of tests that can be tested is the intersection. Testing only this intersection is necessary but not sufficient. The testing required also include the capability of the client to exercise the test scenarios that this SUT can test, to determine that failure-modes are handled properly by both SUT.