Middleware extension to support automatically controlled immunological test series.

Planning of system architecture as well as data base design and modeling of system behaviour is done in Enterprise Architect, whereas requirements are defined and managed using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). While data base modeling, data provision and workflow logic is carried out via PL/SQL Developer, graphical user interfaces are generated using Visual Studio, Silverlight, C# and Delphi. For web interface programming Java is employed as well as Schema to build the components for data import and export. Host and instrument communication occurs via HL7 and ASTM. Source code components are managed in Team Foundation server, whereas automated testing is done via Visual Studio and C#. HP ALM is employed to create and manage test cases as well as to provide general quality control and traceability of development artifacts. For project documentation, visualization and communication Word, Excel and Powerpoint are used.