Summary

It may be desirable to interact with a certain device interface to test or demonstrate various workflows, but one may not always have access to a physical device or (related) software components. In order to alleviate the device dependencies, the ClinSpark Agent offers the ability to interact with ‘mock’ device profiles for testing and demonstration purposes.

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Note: The use of mock devices is not suitable for testing study designs and form configurations in any production-like setting. Real (non-mock) device profiles intended for study use should always be used.

Prerequisites

A directory called ‘clinsparkdevice’ must be available in the active Windows user default home directory.

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ClinSpark Device Configurations

The ClinSpark Agent looks for specifically named ‘mock’ device profile configurations coming from ClinSpark.

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All of mock device profiles can be reviewed within the Devices > Configure component.

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Chroma Meter

A mock chroma meter device profile can quickly be created by changing the name of the existing ‘Konica Chroma Meter’ device profile to ‘Mock Chroma Meter’. Additionally, a new ‘Mock Chroma Meter’ EDC profile can be created with matching device parameters. This must be done by a Foundry Health ‘superadmin’ user.

Note: changing the name of an existing Chroma Meter device profile may cause undesirable results depending on the environment and use of that device. This is NOT recommended for PROD environments.

Modifying File Input Parameters

The mock device files located in the user home directory folder ‘clinsparkdevice’ contain input parameters the ClinSpark agent pulls from.  To test various scenarios and workflows, it may be necessary to modify these values.

Most of the files can be opened and modified using any standard text editor.

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Using Mock Devices

To test forms using mock devices, they must be built leveraging the mock device profiles. Mock device forms otherwise follow the same design conventions of regular device integration forms.

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