Application Management Requirements for Embedded Software

摘要

The purpose of this licentiate thesis is to describe the actual maintenance andevolution processes of embedded software in two case organizations and to define preconditions for improving such processes. The problems and solutions developed can thus be used in improving the practical maintenance and evolution processes and in defining methods and tools to facilitate the work of software maintainers. This thesis summarises the methods and techniques used in defining the application management requirements and presents the results of the two case studies. Both organizations that were analysed develop and maintain real-time embedded software with close contacts to hardware development. The thesis presents a qualitative process analysis framework for analyzing application management process of the case companies. The results of two a analyses approach is evaluated by comparing it with a quantitative process analysis method called CMM and summarising the experiences from the case studies.