Abstract:
Over the years, protection equipment has taken on more and more functions, algorithms and communications. Because of this, protection manufacturers have significantly increased the speed at which they generate new firmware versions. As TSO, we have the responsibility to equip the network with devices that have a secure operation and to achieve this, experience has shown us that we must test new firmware versions before equipping those devices on the network. In order to maintain an adequate level of quality, security and at the same time agility we have developed an Automatic Protection Testing System in RTDS. This System starts with a configuration software that helps generating Test files in XML format which are then read by a universal runtime script that executes, validates and generates tests results as logs and excel files. This System greatly reduces the time required to validate new versions of Firmware, providing us with the agility to keep up to date with critical updates for protection devices.
David Descalzo Gómez, REE