@InProceedings{Vega2008,
  author    = {Diana Vega and Ina Kathrin Schieferdecker and George Din},
  booktitle = {Setting Quality Standards. CONQUEST 2008, 11th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology. Proceedings : Potsdam 2008, 24. bis 26. September 2008},
  title     = {A {TTCN-3}-based test automation framework for {HL7}-based applications and components},
  isbn      = {978-3-89864-567-6},
  pages     = {181--194},
  publisher = {dpunkt Verlag},
  url       = {https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/360932},
  abstract  = {Information systems used in health care use more and more a common approach of structuring and representing the health care data. One of the standards ad-dressing such an approach is HL7 Standard (Health Level Seven) [HL7 08]. It supports the inter-communication of various components in different medical facilities known as HIS (Healthcare Information Systems). So far, little attention has been given to a common methodology for assuring the quality of HIS systems and their testing. In this paper we present a test framework for HIS-based health care applications, which is based on the standardized test technology TTCN-3 providing both a testing language for specifying tests and a test architecture for the automated execution of tests. TTCN-3 has been successfully applied to test applications in telecommunication, automotive, etc., its application for health care systems is however in the beginning.  We show how TTCN-3 can be applied to analyze medical information and how existent TTCN-3 based test methodologies can be re-used in the health care area. Due to the increased level of complexity of medical information used in HIS-based systems, manual testing is almost impossible and a very tedious task. Therefore, our framework aims at a higher degree of test automation.},
  file      = {:2008/Vega2008 - A TTCN 3 Based Test Automation Framework for HL7 Based Applications and Components.pdf:PDF},
  type      = {conference},
  year      = {2008}
}