CLIENT SUITABILITY TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A SUBSTATION AUTOMATING SYSTEM

The present invention relates to a client suitability test apparatus for a substation automating system with regard to IEC 61850 service between virtual intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and clients for a plurality of IEDs, wherein the apparatus comprises: a suitability test process generating unit using at least one test model selected from among a plurality of predefined test models, and modeling a suitability test process to test the suitability of a client; a suitability test executing unit for calling a test process model, and executing a suitability test on a client according to the content of the test process model; a communication packet analyzing unit capturing and analyzing a communication packet on a communication response of a virtual IED and the communication request of a client according to the suitability test executing unit; and a test grading unit for grading the suitability test of the client based on test grading conditions of the test process model called by the suitability test executing unit.