Details of what activities form the basis of testing for consumer applications

Consumer systems SHALL undertake a three stage testing process:

• Technical accreditation for Spine connectivity prerequisites
• Technical conformance for functional testing of consumer API usage
• Solution assurance for functional, non-functional, ready-for-operation and clinical safety

Technical accreditation

Consumer systems SHALL be (or have previously been) tested and accredited to establish baseline Spine connectivity prerequisites:

• N3 connectivity / ASID / PKI Certificate
• Personal Demographic Service (PDS) integration
• Spine Directory Service (SDS) integration

Technical conformance

Consumer systems SHALL be tested for technical conformance of the following before they can be listed on the product catalogue:

• Spine Secure Proxy (SSP) integration
• Foundations

Consumer systems SHALL be tested for conformance to one or more of the following capability packs:

• Access Record HTML
• Access Record Structured
• Appointment Management

Solution assurance

Solution assurance ensures that the correct level of safety, governance, and security has been accepted, understood and signed off by the organisation consuming the APIs.