Test Users and Scenarios

Summary

Summary

Test Users

  • Removes the need to request test user/SAML for every issue reported
  • Expedites HealthSparq’s triage process
    • Facilitates reproduction steps
    • Provides context to troubleshoot & validate issue
  • Improves alignment between HealthSparq and your team

What Do Test Users Represent?

  • Validates plan and brand/tenant of use case
  • Confirms network/plan being used
  • Confirms alpha prefix for communication with BCBSA APIs
  • Provides test user information for benefit response validation (as appropriate for test case)

Ex. Not seeing National Providers when performing a PCP search out of area for a student dependent:

As authenticated user X, when I change my location to Missoula, MT, select the Doctors by specialty tile and search for PCPs no results are returned

Test Scenarios

  • Expedites HealthSparq’s triage process
    • Facilitates reproduction steps
    • Provides context to troubleshoot & validate issue
  • Understanding each plan’s unique testing needs
  • Test cases for provider searches
    • public and/or authenticated searches
  • Test cases for downstream processes (CLNR, NCCT, etc)
  • Improves alignment between HealthSparq and your team

What Do Test Scenarios Represent?

  1. Specific use case being tested/validated
  2. Reproduction steps
  3. Clearly defined expected results
  4. Blueprint to troubleshoot the issue

Provider Search:
Ex. Not seeing National Providers when performing a PCP search out of area for a student dependent :

As authenticated user X, when I change my location to Missoula, MT, and search Doctors by specialty, PCPs {Bob Family-Practice,MD, Jane PCP} should return is search results

Cost search:
Ex. Not seeing expected CLNR rate:

As authenticated user X, when I change my location to Missoula, MT, select the cost tile, and search for negotiated rates using {billingcode} I see the negotiated rate of {negotiatedrate{} for provider {Dr. Bob Family-Practice}