Hi Roger, On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:45:43 +0100 Roger Erens <roger.erens at e-s-c.biz> wrote:
> >> > In this scenario, it takes more than three month or year in real time. > >> > It is not efficient. In this connectathon, I have assumed participants > >> > exchange records that have ranged time, more than three month, within > >> > some minutes > >> > For example, > >> > ? ?Real time ? ? ? ? record ? ? ? recorded time > >> > i) ?09:00 ? ? ? ? ? ? Event1 ? ? ? 2008-11-22T10:15:43Z > >> > ii) 09:01 ? ? ? ? ? ? Event2 ? ? ? 2008-12-11T09:22:10Z > >> Aha. I assumed that a health application would determine the 'recorded > >> time' directly based on the 'Real time' (workstation's system clock). > >> Here you seem to 'fabricate' a recorded time. > > Do you use only real data in any test phases? > Well, it depends. If it is a test geared towards a programmer, e.g. > unit tests, the data does not have to be real. (For example a person > called A Aaa, born on 1-1-'1, because this helps in entering some data > quickly) > But if the test is geared towards an end-user, like I presumed the > connect-a-thon to be, I think we should use as much as possible real > data within the health applications. Simulation of data should be kept > as much as possible outside the application. For the date-times that > get recorded, that would mean manipulating the system clock. Yes, I agree that connectability 'demo' towrads an end-user is important. But it is another problem whether the data have reality in 'test'. For test, data should be capable to test the border of conditions or logic, not depends on ease of input by hand. I think all tests should be automated by tools, because we should have many tests that are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. I also agree the test should be performed before medinfo, connectathon. Would you please fabricate demo scenario? Because we will not have much time to demonstrate and repeat many times, it will be prefer that system clock does not need to be changed. # I could not find 'fabricate' in my dictionary. I guess it means # 'create artefact' -- KOBAYASHI, Shinji <skoba at moss.gr.jp>
