Energy Systems Test Case Discovery Enabled by Test Case Profile and Repository

TL;DR

This paper introduces a structured approach to discovering and organizing test cases for complex energy systems by using Test Case Profiles and an improved indexing method, facilitating better management of multi-domain infrastructure tests.

Contribution

It proposes Test Case Profiles and an indexing method to enhance test case discovery and organization in multi-domain energy system testing environments.

Findings

Test Case Profiles improve test case discoverability.

The indexing method enhances repository navigation.

Four use cases demonstrate practical applications.

Abstract

Smart energy systems comprise multiple domains like power, thermal, control, information, and communication technology, which increases the complexity of research and development studies. This expansion also requires larger and ever so complex experimental pilot environments driving the demand for geographically distributed multi-research infrastructure tests. The Holistic Test Description approach supports the design of multi-domain and multi-research infrastructure tests by organizing the test cases into comprehensive segments, ensuring all relevant items for testing are covered. These test cases eventually form a pool, which to understand holistically would require studying and reading all the descriptions. This work proposes therefore the concept of Test Case Profiles to improve test case discovery and the structured creation of them. Test Case Profiles add further structure to the indexing in test case repositories. Along with the proposed indexing method, four different use cases are introduced to motivate additional applications of the proposed concept.