Objective evaluation of software architectures in driver assistance systems

摘要

This paper describes methods and the obtained results for objective evaluation of software architectures in the automotive embedded domain. Software architecture is the key factor for influencing and fulfilling non-functional requirements that are addressed to a software system. Among others scalability, extensibility and portability are to be mentioned as major criteria. Until today however there is no approach that allows evaluating and measuring the quality of such software architectures objectively and quantitatively. The approach described here tries to close this gap and offers software architects methods and tools to be applied automatically to any existing architecture draft measuring an objective ‘quality value’.