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Towards Alignment of Processes, Tools, and Products in Automotive Software Systems Development

Authors:
Joachim Schramm
Andreas Rausch
Daniel Fiebig
Oscar Slotosch
Mohammad Abu-Alqumsan

Keywords: Process-Tool Integration; Toolchain; Software Process; Standards; Certification

Abstract:
Numerous quality standards impact the lifecycle of software and system development in the automotive industry.Hereby, quality is evaluated through rigorous assessment of the deployed processes, tools and products. Yet, although these three aspects go hand-in-hand, they are typically assessed separately and manually. Moreover, system providers are increasingly challenged by media breaks coming along with the necessity to integrate processes and tools, and to facilitate data exchange among these tools. Consequently, this adds more demands and challenges on certification. This paper presents the TOPWATER approach, whereby a unified metamodel is used to specify how processes, standards and tools are linked. We introduce TOPWATER from the conceptual as well as from the technical perspective. Shown also in particular is the integration of the approach into the Validas’ qualification methodological framework, which is used for qualification and classification of toolchains; a requirement of safety standards imposed on all tools used to develop safetyrelated products/items. This example from the Automotive Software Engineering field is used for evaluation, where outputs from the TOPWATER method supported Validas process assessment by TÜV. In this pretest, TOPWATER has demonstrated its feasibility. The approach supports the integration of new sustainable and resilient mobility concepts in existing infrastructures and saves costs through early deviation detection.

Pages: 100 to 106

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