A Case Study in Integrated Quality Assurance for Performance Management Systems

Liam Peyton, Bo Zhan, Bernard Stepien

2008

Abstract

On-line enterprise applications that are used by thousands of geographically dispersed users present special challenges for quality assurance. A case study of a hospital performance management system is used to investigate the specific issues of architectural complexity, dynamic change, and access to sensitive data in test environments. A quality assurance framework is proposed that integrates with and leverages the performance management system itself. As well, a data generation tool suitable for the requirements of testing performance management systems has been built that addresses limitations in similar commercially available tools.

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in Harvard Style

Peyton L., Zhan B. and Stepien B. (2008). A Case Study in Integrated Quality Assurance for Performance Management Systems . In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-43-2, pages 129-138. DOI: 10.5220/0001743701290138


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis08,
author={Liam Peyton and Bo Zhan and Bernard Stepien},
title={A Case Study in Integrated Quality Assurance for Performance Management Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={129-138},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001743701290138},
isbn={978-989-8111-43-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008)
TI - A Case Study in Integrated Quality Assurance for Performance Management Systems
SN - 978-989-8111-43-2
AU - Peyton L.
AU - Zhan B.
AU - Stepien B.
PY - 2008
SP - 129
EP - 138
DO - 10.5220/0001743701290138