1. AUTOMATED TESTING OF ITER DIAGNOSTICS SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION
Summary of main achievements:
I&C development methodology established and implemented.
Acceptance test scenarios and procedures defined and manual execution performed. All functional and performance aspects tested.
Test results are documented in compliance matrix
Manual testing of complex diagnostics is very time consuming and error prone
Identified need for automated testing and test automation
Main difficulties for function and procedures testing are the set-up of the test conditions implying a well defined test sequence.
Other difficulties include exception handling in case of system errors.
System identification will allow to evaluate the status of the system thereby allowing to take best course of action in a set of given circumstances.
Developed concept for automated testing of functions and procedures
Automated testing is based on CODAC framework which supports state machines (SNL) and scripting (based on python).