Uncertainty Annotations for Holistic Test Description of Cyber-physical Energy Systems

TL;DR

This paper enhances the Holistic Test Description framework for cyber-physical energy systems by integrating uncertainty analysis tools and templates, improving test planning, documentation, and reproducibility.

Contribution

It introduces uncertainty extensions to HTD and an analysis tool, facilitating structured uncertainty assessment in complex energy system testing.

Findings

Uncertainty extensions improve test documentation clarity.

Tools are openly available for practitioners.

Case studies demonstrate practical application.

Abstract

The complexity of experimental setups in the field of cyber-physical energy systems has motivated the development of the Holistic Test Description (HTD), a well-adopted approach for documenting and communicating test designs. Uncertainty, in its many flavours, is an important factor influencing the communication about experiment plans, execution of, and the reproducibility of experimental results. The work presented here focuses on supporting the structured analysis of experimental uncertainty aspects during planning and documenting complex energy systems tests. This paper introduces uncertainty extensions to the original HTD and an additional uncertainty analysis tool. The templates and tools are openly available and their use is exemplified in two case studies.