Trends in Embedded Software Engineering

Liggesmeyer, Peter; Trapp, Mario

doi:10.1109/ms.2009.80

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“…They list "high demands on availability, safety, information security, and interoperability" as typical quality attributes. Liggesmeyer & Trapp [2] reaffirms this view stating that embedded software is one of many elements in a product consisting of mechanics, electrics and electronics, and software. The also mention quality attributes such as software safety, reliability and timeliness software safety, reliability, and timeliness, which all must taken into account in the development process.…”

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confidence: 89%

Archetypical Approaches of Fast Software Development and Slow Embedded Projects

Eklund

Bosch

2013

2013 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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Abstract-This paper describes the problem context of software development for mass-produced embedded systems, with distinguishing factors such as the co-design of software and hardware, strong focus on manufacturing aspects, supplier involvement and safety-critical functionality. In this context there is a need for a holistic model to explain the failures and successes industrial projects, where just investigating a single dimension, e.g. chosen ways-of-working or architecture is not sufficient.The main contribution is a holistic model consisting of five archetypical approaches to embedded software development, based on a mapping study over industrial cases in literature. The approaches range from "traditional" stage-gate projects focusing on product qualities and large integration efforts, to fast development in short loops by autonomous teams based on a composable software platform. The model aligns the processes with the architecture of the embedded software, and the implications on the business and the organisation. The model allows an research & development(R&D) organisation to identify where it is positioned and to evolve its software development approach. The model is elucidated by two empirical cases from a Swedish company.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Archetypical Approaches of Fast Software Development and Slow Embedded Projects

Eklund

Bosch

2013

2013 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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“…Existing MDE tools do not have robust support for this. DSLs in Embedded Software Studies such as Broy's [6] and Liggesmeyer's [30] show that DSLs substantially increase productivity, and DSLs are increasingly used for embedded software. Examples include Feldspar [1] for digital signal processing; Hume [19] for real-time embedded systems, as well as [16], where DSLs are used to address quality of service concerns in middleware for distributed real-time systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: a case study

Voelter¹,

Deursen

Kolb³

et al. 2015

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We report on an industrial case study on developing the embedded software for a smart meter using the C programming language and domain-specific extensions of C such as components, physical units, state machines, registers and interrupts. We find that the extensions help significantly with managing the complexity of the software. They improve testability mainly by supporting hardware-independent testing, as illustrated by low integration efforts. The extensions also do not incur significant overhead regarding memory consumption and performance. Our case study relies on mbeddr, an extensible version of C. mbeddr, in turn, builds on the MPS language workbench which supports modular extension of languages and IDEs.

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“…A first indication is that overview and trend articles of embedded systems' software (Ebert & Salecker, 2009;Graaf et al, 2003;Hänninen et al, 2006;Liggesmeyer & Trapp, 2009) do not mention reverse engineering. To better understand if the embedded systems research community publishes reverse engineering research in their own sphere, we selected a number of conferences and journals that attract papers on embedded systems (with an emphasis on software, rather than hardware): Journal of Systems Architecture -Embedded Systems Design 4 We used the advanced search feature (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/advsearch.jsp) on all available content, matching search terms in the metadata only.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%