We are working on a three-part blog series to help you dry test your auto-verification rules prior to placing them in production. We’ll help you design a dry testing strategy so you can confidently take advantage of your software technology, realize productivity gains and reduce labor constraints. Don’t let your technology age-out with testing hesitancy – there is a way forward to alleviate your testing obstacles.

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Simple Yet Effective Dry Rule Testing

The pandemic has placed a magnifying glass on laboratories and their efforts to modernize their production processes to adapt to the volatile world of lab testing. Labs know they need to implement software technology that automates manual and tedious tasks that insidiously introduce lab errors. The lack of labor, testing expertise, and technology acceleration has placed labs in a place of procrastination as they balance validation activities against the daily pressure of keeping lab operations on track.

Technology is readily available to enhance lab productivity yet labs are not prepared to validate these systems. Labs get stuck. How to efficiently design, test, and document testing efforts to validate a rules-based system? The lack of industry testing protocols, vendor support, and tools further exacerbates the reluctance of labs to undertake a large-scale or seemingly complex testing project. Lab staff are not typically trained on how to effectively test new technology – they are biological scientists, not system design testers.

How do we bridge this gap? This three-part series will lay out practical and simple steps to design and implement an effective dry rule testing protocol that can be re-purposed over the long term. While we can’t resolve your labor shortages – we can give you a step-wise system to dry-test your rules so you can get them into production faster and achieve those long-sought productivity gains.

Follow us as we lay out for you a strategy for how to dry-test your rules-based system. Our blog series includes these topics:

Part I: I’d like some QUALITY with my RULES please!

Part II: Re-think test design and testing tools to avoid surprises

Part III: Future-proof testing protocols for long-term resilience