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e-Health processes are data-focused, event-driven, and dynamic. They should be systematically monitored for compliance with legislation, organizational guidelines, and quality of care protocols. Monitoring BPEL-defined online processes in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is complex, especially since healthcare processes often involve the collaboration of different organizations. We extend the traditional SOA framework with policy-based processing of streaming event data using a general publish/subscribe model in a business-to-business (B2B) healthcare network. The testing of such systems is difficult to manage and difficult to implement using general purpose languages because of intensive interleaved behaviors. We propose several TTCN-3 solutions to the interleave problem both at the level of actors behavior and at the level of the end-to-end behavior of the process. Finally, we discuss how TTCN-3 can be used at the design stage to simulate the behavior of actors by an abstract test component behavior emulation in parallel.
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Stepien, B., Eze, B., Peyton, L. (2015). Testing Policy-Based e-Health Monitoring Processes Using TTCN-3. In: Benyoucef, M., Weiss, M., Mili, H. (eds) E-Technologies. MCETECH 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17957-5_13
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