Part 4 - Iowa Medicaid Enterprise

RFP MED-12-001 | Technical ProposalIowa Medicaid Enterprise System Service Procurement | MMIS and Core MMIS OperationsWe have honed and improved our development and test methodology through the multiple MMISimplementations and have discovered the optimal path to successful start-up and implementation. Ourproposed testing approach, outlined herein, represents the distillation of our experiences and offers themost efficient development and testing cycle with the least amount of risk to the Department. Theapproach provides multiple test points where both the Department and Team Noridian can verify theresulting developed MMIS solution meets the requirements, design, and expectations. As part of TeamNoridian's development cycle, the development team performs unit testing. A key differentiator in ouriVision360 process is the addition of independent unit testing, completed by the testing team, as part ofthe development iteration cycles. It offers Team Noridian testers the opportunity to perform earlyrequirements validation and provide feedback to development while validating their own understanding ofthe new MMIS so that their test cases are comprehensive and accurate. Early testing can often uncoverdifferent interpretations of requirements and design, which, through the early involvement of theDepartment and Team Noridian's test team, can be avoided and ensure future development and testingphases are built from a common understanding.Team Noridian's is proposing the early release of provider enrollment and management prior to the finalrelease of the new MMIS. The early provider release is provided approximately one year prior to theproduction release of the full MMIS capability. The early provider release will enable early outreach andtraining with providers. This early release will include functionality to enable providers to manage theirinformation through the Web Portal. It will also enable the provider management services contractor tobegin to improve the quality of provider data. Our test program ensures that early provider releaseundergoes a systematic test process as discussed in this section. The early provider release will also betested through the test cycles and processes. By doing conducting the test program for the early providerrelease, it will also provide Team Noridian and the Department an opportunity to fine tune testing prior tothe MMIS release.Our approach demonstrates how we will reuse test materials (e.g., plans, test cases) from the test librariescompiled from previous MMIS projects, providing a solid test framework from which to build theIAMMS test program. We will also demonstrate how our tenet of testing as early, and as often, buildingfrom one test phase to another, will culminate in the successful validation of the new MMIS design,requirements, and the expectations of the Department.A successful test program must be built on a solid foundation of tried and true testing principles andprocesses and that starts with planning. Team Noridian has developed an extensive test foundation of testplans, manual and automated test case libraries, and test processes to build quality into the testing processitself. These plans and processes conform to the IEEE 829 Specification for Software Testing Artifacts.This foundation was designed to be scalable and tailored to support any project and is currentlysuccessfully practiced in Washington and Michigan MMIS projects. Team Noridian will customize theseartifacts to meet the specific requirements of the Iowa MMIS.As there are multiple phases of testing through the DDI phase, Team Noridian will be preparing multipletest plans for the MMIS project. Each phase of testing has a specific purpose and focus. As eachsuccessive layer of testing is completed, the focus of testing narrows to more specific goals andrequirements. This is depicted in Figure 8-74.The testing activities within each test phase are similar. The generic process used throughout the newMMIS project is documented in the following sections. Variances within the process for a specific phaseof construction and test or component of the new MMIS will be documented in the appropriate test planand furthers descriptions of the activities included in the following sections.8 | 131