Anticlue

System Testing

An idea I've been tooling around with for a while is system testing through test tools.

I have one integrated system, I would love to run through test scripts every night. Our hospital registration, billing, interface, labs, result reporting, pharmacy, and encoding system. I think it would be great to be able to kick off a set of standardized integrated tests at 7:00 pm, and come into work in the morning looking at the results. I also think we can do it, I'm sure there are tools out there that would automate the feed into a mainframe or unix emulation session. I also think some of the vendors for the data entry client server app, might have a way to automate it for their testing before releases. And there are tools that automate testing of a web system.

If we got a standard set of test cases, then from that pool agreed which would need to be tested for a certain requests. I believe this would be a much better mechanism, and save people time in the long, in addition to providing a better quality overall.