Automotive Software Systems Evolution: Planning and Evolving Product Line Architectures

摘要

Automotive software systems are an essential and innovative part of nowadays connected and automated vehicles. The automotive industry is currently facing the challenge to re-invent the automobile. Consequently, automotive software systems, their software systems architecture, and the way we engineer those kinds of software systems are confronted with the challenge of managing complexity of the desired automotive software systems and the corresponding engineering process. We will present an approach that helps engineers to manage system complexity based on architecture design principles, techniques for architecture quality measurements and processes to iteratively evolve automotive software systems. Based on a running sample, we will demonstrate and illustrate the main assets of the proposed engineering approach.