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Towards Cross-domain Release Engineering - Potentials and Challenges for Automotive Industry

Authors:
David Inkermann
Tobias Huth
Thomas Vietor

Keywords: Release Engineering; Release Planning; Innovation Cycles; Cross-Domain System Modelling; Automotive Engineering

Abstract:
Product Development (PD) is facing fundamental challenges since the proportion of hardware and software-based functions realized to create innovative products is changing. Performance and enthusiastic attributes of products are more and more based of software providing new functionalities and services to the user. Short innovations cycles of software-based functions result in a decreasing life time of the overall products. Also, it is a trend that products are taken out of operation due to availability of products with new or enhanced functionalities and performance. However, from a technical viewpoint the products retired still provide full functionality. Release Engineering (RE) provides a concept to handle the different innovation cycles of subsystems and maintain or improve the functionality of a product within PD and during the whole life cycle. However, there is a divers understanding and focus regarding RE in the different engineering domains. This contribution discusses the basic concepts in the domains of software and mechanical engineering and highlights the challenges and potentials of RE in the field of automotive engineering. As a basis for further research, different fields of actions are highlighted.

Pages: 93 to 99

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4146

ISBN: 978-1-61208-610-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018