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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Rule Testing allows developers to:</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">1.</span><span
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| style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Validate each rule in the context of its rule set:</span>
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| •<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> Control the rule set
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| quality
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| •<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> Impact analysis: to define
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| at the execution if rules are in conflict
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| •<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> Define Data scenarios and
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| test cases to complete the rule approach.
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">2.</span><span
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| style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Develop a powerful framework to support this goal</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">3.</span><span
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| style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Helps to have non-regression tests</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">4.</span><span
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| style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Helps to have simulation platform</span><br />
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The objective of testing is
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| to</span></span>
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| •<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Allow policy managers and business
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| analysts to ensure that the rules are consistent with the intended policy
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| •<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Provide a sandbox environment for
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| policy experimentation
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| We distinguish three types<b>:</b><br />
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| <b><i>Unit Testing</i></b>
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| The process of testing a <b>specific rule</b>
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| <b><i>End-to-End Testing</i></b>
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| The process of testing a (larger) set of rules, a whole ruleflow or an <b>entire rule service</b>
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| <b><i>Simulation and Impact Analysis</i></b>
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| The process of testing a <b>policy change</b> on a sample set of <b>real data</b>, to predict the
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| <b>impact</b> this would have <b>on the business</b>
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