Rama, The topic is not, and has never been, SOFTWARE testing. The white paper discusses HIPAA EDI TRANSACTIONS testing and certification.
Perhaps this issue would be resolved by having a white paper on SOFTWARE validation, testing and certification, along with the related topics of SYSTEMS validation, testing and certification and CE validation, testing and certification. It seems to me that there is a substantial group of people that are interested in the software/system/CE validation, testing and certification for compliance, and since their needs are not addressed by the transaction testing white paper... Would you volunteer to draft a white paper along those lines? I am sure you will find plenty of others that are also interested in that topic. Mark Lott comes to mind as a co-leader with you. Kepa On Sunday 22 December 2002 02:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Software and Software Testing, which is what the problem of Transactions and Codes Sets' testing is all about... let's focus on this issue as this group and the listserv are about this and frankly should be about nothing else, IMHO. > > ISO did not provide good standard for software for a while, inspite of providing good metrics, ways to audit processes etc., for manufacturing. Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Capability Maturiy Model (CMM) did come up with good metrics and ways to measure quality and provide certification to organisations to be level 1 through 5... (ISO caught up later on) and then there is NIST and RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Profesional Society) and others that did come up with creating entities to certify the certifier and create a certification process etc., Since HIPAA is a regulatory issue and we need to adopt these existing approaches and not have to take the Underwriter's Laboratory example as it is irrelevant for HIPAA Transactions Testing which is Software Testing. > --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-testing as: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org
