During the second period of the project the consortium finalized the development of the CPD (IL, persistence layer, Rail Business Services (RBS), AF, Operator Workstations (OW) and CDM) and completed all the tests to validate its internal modules but also the integration with external TMS applications provided by X2RAIL-4.
The development was manly focused on the RBS (RBCs, Interlockings, weather forecast, maintenance, Passenger Information Systems and Energy), AF, OW and CDM, as the Integration Layer was almost completed during the first period and just some conformance test were performed to validate their identified KPI.
The Conceptual Data Model (CDM) scope changed in an early stage of the project based on an project management decision to handle two coordinated models (OPTIMA/LinX4Rail CDM, as foreseen, and the X2Rail-4 model used for the integration layer) instead of one (the CDM and its platform-specific derivatives). The intention was to preserve outcomes of previous Shift2Rail projects and developments resting on them.
The another main activity of second period was the validation of the internal modules of the CPD and with external TMS applications. A complete internal test programme was developed for validating the system against the requirements including prioritization of the tests. Considering the limited available resources, as well as the delays accumulated throughout the project, the consortium decided to focus on the implementation of the highest priority tests (classified as “Must”), which still includes a significant number of 19 tests that require substantial time and efforts to carried them out and have the results analyzed.
