Recommendations on tools for Unit Testing HL7 interfaces?

[Sam Habiel]

Does anybody have any good recommendations on tools one can use to
Unit Test HL7 interfaces? I am looking for something that I can script
to do the following:

1. Send message #1.
2. Check that you get this result back.
3. Send message #2.
4. Check that you get this result back.
etc.

I would like something external to VistA, as I don't see much point in
testing messages internally.

Right now, I can use netcat or Mirth to send messages, but that will
only get me to test message by message.

--Sam

[Ben Irwin]

Sam,

I am sorry, but I have used the following sample to run tests using Curl and Microsoft Excel.  The following example takes information from cells in an Excel spreadsheet, uses the data to build the Curl command, then run the Curl command, and place the returned result from Curl into the result column in the spreadsheet.  I can send an example Excel Spreadsheet if you are interested.

Sub Simple()

  Dim rangetoexport As Range

  Dim rowcounter As Long

  Dim columncounter As Long

  Dim CurlCommand

  Dim WSS As Object

  Set WSS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

  Dim WSSExec As Object

  

  Set rangetoexport = Selection

  

  For rowcounter = 2 To rangetoexport.Rows.Count

    

    CurlCommand = "cmd /c "

    CurlCommand = CurlCommand & "curl "

    CurlCommand = CurlCommand & "http://10.0.1.150:57772/csp/vdocs/wt/"

    CurlCommand = CurlCommand & rangetoexport(rowcounter, 2) & "/"

    CurlCommand = CurlCommand & rangetoexport(rowcounter, 3) & "/"

    CurlCommand = CurlCommand & rangetoexport(rowcounter, 4) & " "

    Set WSSExec = WSS.Exec(CurlCommand)

   

    Cells(rowcounter, rangetoexport.Columns.Count + 1) = WSSExec.StdOut.ReadAll

    

    Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:05"))

    

  Next

End Sub

[Kekoa]

Create C# unit tests using leadtools hl7 sdk or pick your own open source hl7 sdk and roll your own test framework. 👍

[K.S. Bhaskar]

Might https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/systems-interoperability-group/nist-2015-edition-onc-healthit-certification-test-tools help?

Regards

– Bhaskar

[Sheng Jiang]

mllp is a pretty simple format. 

echo -n -e "\x0b$(cat filename.hl7.txt)\x1c\x0d" ' | nc host port

the community for your script language probably already have some utility for mllp. if not, it's not hard to write one on top of a tcp client.