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“Irreproducible bugs become highly reproducible right after delivery to the customer” – Michael Stahl’s derivative to Murphy’s Law

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Markets Release 1.19

Market Participant Testing Kick-Off

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Agenda

• The Why
• The What
• The Who
• The When
• The Where
• The How

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The Why

• Allow Market Participants to Become Familiar with the

Updates and Changes Contained in Release prior to Production

• Ensure Changes are Functioning as Designed and Requested
• Ensure the Quality of the Software

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The What…

Member Impacting Issues

• Issue 3356: Allow users to use the Virtual Bids/Offers post API
• perations to delete Virtual Bids or Offers
• Issue 3975: Improve data structure for Overrides in Markets API

and Notification to assist with data parsing

• Issue 4559: Include Endpoint Address on Markets UI Transaction

Log page and associated API operation

• Issue 4560: Add unique ID to Markets XML notifications
• Issue 1818: Identify MP Self-Commits and Market Commits on

Markets UI Commitment page and corresponding API operation

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…The What Continued…

Member Facing Issues

• Issue 3035: Display timestamp of override entry on Market UI
• Issue 1301: Allow User Preferences to Saved in Markets UI
• Issue 1302: Move Messages and Filtering Options to Top of

Display on Markets UI

• Issue 3480: Remove Post Reserve Status Set operation from the

Reserve WSDL

• Issue 4779: Set Mitigation Detail Element to Unbounded in

Commitment History Operation

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…The What Concluded

Member Facing Issue

• Issue 4513: Overrides that span multiple days should be returned

in the Markets Energy Web Service API

• Testing of the issue is optional and test cases are not provided–

please make a request via RMS if you would like to test this item

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The Who

Market Participants

• Execute all test cases applicable to entity
• Turn in results spreadsheet EOB Fridays via RMS
• Complete Structured Testing by Friday, September 30
• Complete Unstructured Testing by Friday, October 14
• Contact SPP with all questions or for assistance via RMS

(Quick Pick: Project Inquires; Sub-Type = Markets Release 1.19)

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The Who

SPP Staff

• Support MP Structured Testing
• Respond to Market Participant RMS tickets in timely manner
• Communicate any changes and/or updates regarding testing

in timely manner

• Post Testing Scorecard weekly

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The When

• September 1 – October 14: Markets 1.19 MP Testing Period
• Structured Testing: September 1 – September 30
• Unstructured Testing: October 1 – October 14
• September 22: Testing Status Call
• November 8: Markets Release 1.19 Migrates to Production

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The Where

Member Testing Environment

• Supported Monday – Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm CPT
• Utilizes Gas Day Timeline

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The How

• Markets Release 1.19 Member Impacting Project Overview
• Markets Release 1.19 Test Cases
• Markets Release 1.19 Testing Scorecard
• MOS 1.19 API Specifications

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Questions

 Contact SPP via the Request Management System

 Quick Pick: Project Inquires  Sub-Type: Markets Release 1.19

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