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On Investigating the Benefits of TTCN-3-Based Testing in the Context of IEC 61850

Authors:
Georg Panholzer
Christof Brandauer
Stephan Pietsch
Jürgen Resch

Keywords: IEC 61850; TTCN-3; conformance testing; perfor- mance testing

Abstract:
This paper is concerned with approaches to testing in the context of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard IEC 61850, which is gaining momentum in general power utility automation tasks. We outline the current state-of-the-art in IEC 61850 testing and argue that an approach based on the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3), as has been used successfully in other industries, would provide several advantages. The test specification and execution language TTCN-3 is briefly introduced and potential benefits are discussed. We describe how we used TTCN-3 to implement conformance tests for an IEC 61850 client and run those tests against a certified server. Finally, we present a performance test case for synchrophasor measurements on the basis of distributed TTCN-3.

Pages: 54 to 58

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: May 24, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-406-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from May 24, 2015 to May 29, 2015