Quality for the software that runs the grid
Energy and nuclear quality covers the control software, instrumentation, and safety systems that operate power plants and the grid — for the utilities, reactor operators, and I&C vendors who build them. TestLauncher brings agentic testing, a durable QA Brain, and continuous compliance to systems that cannot fail quietly.
What makes quality hard in energy & nuclear
Verifying safety-critical control logic
Protection and shutdown logic has to be proven correct across every operational and fault state, not just the nominal path. Coverage must reach the transients and failure modes that only appear under real plant conditions.
Legacy I&C meets modern software
Decades-old instrumentation runs alongside new digital control, and the interfaces between them are where defects hide. Testing has to span both worlds without a modern harness to lean on.
Change is slow and heavily gated
Every modification to a qualified system triggers re-verification and regulatory review. Regression evidence must be exhaustive and reproducible, or the change does not ship.
Decades-long operational lifespans
A plant outlives the teams and vendors that built its software. The knowledge behind every test and design decision has to survive staff turnover measured in generations.
One intelligence layer for energy & nuclear
The same owned QA Brain — testing, knowledge, and compliance — focused on the risks this sector can’t afford to get wrong.
bugAgent
Autonomous, scriptless testing that explores fault conditions and edge cases in control and I&C software, and self-adapts as the system changes — surfacing failures before commissioning does.
ARC
Continuous compliance that keeps GAMP 5, CSV, and functional-safety evidence current as a background process, so re-verification is ready the moment a change is proposed.
qualThread
A 100-year digital thread that preserves every test, decision, and rationale across the operational life of the plant — turning legacy documentation into live, queryable intelligence.
manualTesting
Expert human testers for the real-world judgment calls that safety systems demand, keeping a person in the loop where the consequence of being wrong is physical.
Designed to support the regimes you work toward
TestLauncher is designed to support programs working toward the standards below and generates the traceability and evidence they call for. Naming a standard here is not a claim of certification — it describes the regimes our customers operate in.
- IEC 61508
The foundational standard for functional safety of electrical, electronic, and programmable safety-related systems.
- IEC 61513
Addresses instrumentation and control for systems important to safety in nuclear power plants.
- IEC 60880
Covers software for computer-based systems performing category A safety functions in nuclear plants.
- IEC 62443
A widely adopted framework for cybersecurity of industrial automation and control systems.
- IEC 62645
Addresses cybersecurity requirements for nuclear power plant instrumentation and control systems.
Bring the QA Brain to energy & nuclear.
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