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Rules engine test harnessRules engine test harness description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090271351, Rules engine test harness. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/048,810 filed Apr. 29, 2008, and entitled “MMIS Health Enterprise Solution,” by Jack Devos, et al., which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. Not applicable. Not applicable. The United States Medicaid program was enacted in 1965 to provide a medical assistance program for individuals and families with low incomes. The Medicaid program comprises three main entities—the patients, the healthcare providers, and the agency administering the plan (i.e., the payer). The Medicaid program is financed through joint federal and state funding. The Medicaid program is administered by each state according to an approved state plan. The specifics of the Medicaid program differ from state to state. Differences may include covered healthcare procedures, allowable procedure costs, and patient eligibility criteria. The state administrators of the Medicaid program are required to have a Medicaid management information system (MMIS) that provides for mechanized and/or computerized Medicaid claims processing. Recently, the Medicaid information technology architecture (MITA) has been promulgated by the U.S. government to provide a blueprint and a set of standards that individual states are to follow in administering the Medicaid program and for developing the next generation MMIS. Rules engines may be pluggable software components that execute rules that have been externalized from application code. The rules define business rules and/or business logic that may change frequently. Typically, rules may be defined by nonprogrammers and may be provided to the rules engine in the form of data or data files. Using a rules engine to provide business rules to an application may reduce time to market and reduce total cost of ownership, with reference to the alternative of encoding the business logic in high level programming language code. Automation designs, for example business rules to be executed by a rules engine and/or applications encoded in a high level programming language, are typically tested extensively before deployment in customer facing products and/or systems. Testing may take the form of executing a number of test cases on the target computer systems, where each test case comprises a single set of inputs to the subject rules engine and/or application. In addition to defining the inputs, the test cases may define the expected output and/or results of executing the rules engine and/or the application on the inputs. Because testing every possible combination of inputs is typically infeasible, an attempt is often made to identify a representative selection of test cases that may provide sufficient confidence in the automation design under test. Testing automation designs may be an expensive process that consumes substantial business resources including personnel, equipment, and schedule time. Insufficient testing can result in deployment of a flawed automation design that may fail inopportunely, possibly damaging the enterprise brand and/or incurring liability. In an embodiment, a system is provided. The system comprises a computer system, a builder component, and a test execution component. When executed by the computer system, the builder component promotes defining a plurality of test cases and a plurality of test scenarios. When executed by the computer system, the text execution component simulates at least one service application, invokes execution of a plurality of rules on a rules engine with an input based on one of the test cases defined using the builder component, wherein the rules engine interacts with the simulated service application, and stores the result of the rule execution in a database. In another embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises providing a builder interface for building a plurality of test cases and a plurality of test scenarios, the interface comprising a list of rules and a plurality of input controls for defining a plurality of inputs for the test cases. The method also comprises storing the test cases and the test scenarios in a database, invoking the rules on a rules engine based on at least one of the test cases and the test scenarios, and simulating at least one service application, wherein the rules engine interacts with the service application when executing the rules. The method also comprises collecting the results of the invocation of the rules on the rules engine and storing the results in the database. In another embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a test case editor and a rule test manager. When executed on a first computer system, the test case editor provides an environment for building a plurality of rule test cases by selecting an entry point from a list of available entry points, by defining a plurality of inputs for the rule, and by defining expected results for one of the test cases. When executed on the first computer system, the rule test manager executes the rule test cases by simulating at least one service program, invoking a plurality of rules on a rules engine based on the rule test cases built using the test case editor, receives results from the rules engine, and stores the results, wherein the rules engine interacts with the simulated service program when executing the rules. These and other features will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and claims. For a more complete understanding of the present disclosure, reference is now made to the following brief description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and detailed description, wherein like reference numerals represent like parts. Continue reading about Rules engine test harness... 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