Behaviour-Driven Development for Computer-Interpretable Clinical Guidelines

In this paper, we propose an approach for specification and analysis of Computer-Interpretable Clinical Guidelines (CIGs) that was inspired by Behaviour-Driven Development. The expected behaviour of a CIG is specified by requirements in natural language. On the one hand, those requirements are used as design input for guideline development. On the other hand, they can be checked against time-oriented data recorded during testing sessions of the implemented CIG.