4.4.1 Fine‐grained Method and Tool Integration for better Automotive Software

Abstract

In the automotive field, software development methods and tools are used to cope with the high complexity of automotive software development. However, problems occur with the tracing of information, the assessment and monitoring of the development status, late and thus expensive changes, etc, which lead to increasing development costs and time as well as quality deficits. Our experience with recent projects have shown that the key to solving these problems lies in providing proper answers to the following questions: (1) How can development methods be assembled? (2) How can the use of a variety of development methods be supported by an appropriate tool? To answer these questions, we introduce a tool integration approach that is strongly based on the integration of development methods. The contribution of this paper is (a) a method integration approach that considers finegrained method objects and their specific structure in addition to the usually considered artifacts, (b) an approach to tool integration that overcomes the deficits of heterogeneous tool environments and utilizes the results of the methodical understanding.

AutoToolVCC: Variable consistency check tool for automotive software projects

“…To help develop automotive software modeling based on the AUTOSAR platform standard, Kim et al 16 developed a practical and scalable tool called AUTOSAR Software Architecture Designer (ASAD). Considering that information tracking, evaluation and monitoring of development status, late changes and expensive changes in automotive software development will cause problems, resulting in increased development costs and time and reduced quality, Altheide et al 17 developed a fine‐grained method and tool integration for better automotive software. To enable software engineers to acquire time data assisting in identifying sources and paths of noise and vibration, Rinaldi et al 18 developed a unique MATLAB‐based coded engineering software tool called Time‐Frequency Analyzer Core (TFAC); furthermore, a unique software tool for automotive NVH troubleshooting was developed by the authors in Reference 19.…”