title: A Conformance Test Suite for Arden Syntax Compilers and Interpreters.
abstract: The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules is a standardized and well-established programming language to represent medical knowledge. To test the compliance level of existing compilers and interpreters no public test suite exists. This paper presents the research to transform the specification into a set of unit tests, represented in JUnit. It further reports on the utilization of the test suite testing four different Arden Syntax processors. The presented and compared results reveal the status conformance of the tested processors. How test driven development of Arden Syntax processors can help increasing the compliance with the standard is described with two examples. In the end some considerations how an open source test suite can improve the development and distribution of the Arden Syntax are presented.
authors: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School.
authors: Klaus-Hendrik
authors: KH
authors: Wolf
authors: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School.
authors: Mike
authors: M
authors: Klimek
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D007802:Language; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software