Holistic Test Description (HTD)

Templates and guidelines relating to the ERIGrid Holistic Test Description (HTD).

Recommended use

For introductory use, read the . Here you find concept definitions, explanations of the template fields, step-by-step instructions and a few examples. Better even, read the paper [1]. Further guidelines explaining the approach and the different fields in the Test Description templates are in .

For regular use, refer to the :

• -- for initial drafting of test cases; e.g. print out as A3 format and fill out during face-to-face meetings. The canvas also serves as single-page pdf presentation format of a test case.
• Test Description Templates -- typical use: one document per test cases, then adding test specifications and experiment specification tables, which can appear multiple times.

In order to get more insights about the approach please have a look into the examples which are provided in the . Additional examples are provided also in the linked Documents for further reading below.

Uncertainty Structure Analysis Template (USAT)

An extended use for experiment planning in case of multiple uncertainty sources was developed in ERIGrid 2.0. The Uncertainty Structure Analysis Template (USAT), found in is an excel-based template that is based on component-oriented structure of the System-under-test. The template facilitates parameter screening and prioritization, but also the anticipation of uncertainty sources in different experiment implementations strategies.
The method is further described and exemplified in [11], which also should be referenced in case of future publications to reference its use.

License

Documents: The documents in this project are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Depending on usage, different forms of attribution are suitable. For scientific publications, we suggest to cite the paper [1] for scientific background and the latest Zenodo release [3]; for purely technical work, refer directly to this repository, ensuring it has the most current templates and guidelines.

Code: Any source code within documents, source code and document sources (in case of Latex) are licensed under the MIT license.

References

Documents recommended for attribution:

[1] Kai Heussen, Cornelius Steinbrink, Ibrahim F. Abdulhadi, Hao Guo,Van Hoa Nguyen, Merkebu Z. Degefa, Julia Merino, Tue V. Jensen, Oliver Gehrke, Daniel Esteban Morales Bondy, Davood Babazadeh, Filip Pröstl Andrén, Thomas I. Strasser, "ERIGrid Holistic Test Description for Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems", Energies, 2019. (https://doi.org/10.3390/en12142722)

[2] Kai Heussen, Davood Babazadeh, Merkebu Z. Degefa, Henning Taxt, Julia. Merino, Van Hoa Nguyen, Pajam Teimourzadeh Baboli, Ata Moghim Khavari, Evangelos. Rikos, Luigi Pellegrino, Quoc Tuan Tran, Tue Vissing Jensen, Panos Kotsampopoulos, Thomas I. Strasser, "Test Procedure and Description for System Testing", European Guide to Power System Testing, Springer, Cham, 2020. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42274-5_2)

[3] ERIGrid Consortium, "ERIGrid/Holistic-Test-Description: v0.5", Zenodo, 25-Jun-2019. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3256157)

Documents for further reading:

[4] Antonello Monti, Ferdinanda Ponci, Marco Cupelli, and Thomas Strasser, "Tutorial "Methods and Tools for Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems", 21-Oct-2018. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467916)

[5] Thomas I. Strasser, Davood Babazadeh, Kai Heussen, et al. "Virtual ERIGrid Final Conference", ERIGrid Consortium, 1-Apr-2020. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3769631)

[6] "D-NA5.1 Smart Grid configuration validation scenario description method", Deliverable, ERIGrid Consortium, 2017. (https://erigrid.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DL_D-NA5.1_ERIGrid_Smart_Grid_configuration_validation_description_method_2017-05-01.pdf)

[7] "D-NA5.2 Partner profiles", Deliverable, ERIGrid Consoritum, 2018. (https://erigrid.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/DL_D-NA5.2_Partner_profiles_2018-05-04.pdf)

[8] "D-JRA2.2 Smart Grid ICT assessment method", Deliverable, ERIGrid Consoritum, 2018. (https://erigrid.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DL_D-JRA2.2_Smart_Grid_ICT_assessment_method_2018-12-23.pdf)

[9] "D-JRA2.3 Smart Grid simulation environment", Deliverable, ERIGrid Consoritum, 2018. (https://erigrid.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DL_D-JRA2.3_Smart_Grid_simulation_environment_2018-12-23.pdf)

[10] "Description of optimization strategies - An overview of the PreCISE approach used for the definition of simulation and optimization workflows", Deliverable D4.3, SmiLES Consortium, 2019. (https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5cd070ea9&appId=PPGMS)

[11] Kai Heussen, Jan Sören Schwarz, Eike Schulte, Zhiwang Feng, Leonard Enrique Ramos Perez, John Nikoletatos, Filip Pröstl Andrén, "Uncertainty Annotations for Holistic Test Description of Cyber-physical Energy Systems", PowerTech 2025

Funding acknowledment

The development of Holistic Test Description has been supported by the ERIGrid project of the H2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No. 654113