To ensure that the terminology is compliant with SNOMED CT Technical specifications it's necessary to run periodic Quality Assurance Tests (QA). Many defects can be detected during editing, alerting the user about errors and preventing save actions. Batch QA Tests Runs that sweep the whole terminology to detect errors are still necessary, as errors can be imported from previous releases, or can be caused by complex interactions between different components that cannot be tested in real time during each save.
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The results are displayed as a list of rules showing the number of issues for each rule in parenthesis. Clicking each rule will display the individual concepts at the bottom of the page.
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- Concept Designation test suite groups all the rules that detect defects on the concept descriptions and languages representation
No active synonym should end with parenthesis. This is a warning, as active synonyms may end with parenthesis, however, this rule has been included to detect synonyms with semantic tags
- Active Terms of active concepts parentheses should be balanced. Means that whenever there is an opening parenthesis, a closing parenthesis must be included, too:
- Active terms of active concepts without any uppercase should have case significance Id value Entire Insensitive.
- Active terms of active concepts that start with upper case should have case SignificanceId equal to case sensitive
- Terms not sharing the same case sensitivity, a rule that detects 2 descriptions that start with the same word in the same concept and do not share the same case sensitivity value.
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