Abstract
The digital transformation of the automotive industry has a significant impact on how development processes need to be organized in future. Dynamic market and technological environments require capabilities to react on changes and to learn fast. Agile methods are a promising approach to address these needs but they are not tailored to the specific characteristics of the automotive domain like product line development. Although, there have been efforts to apply agile methods in the automotive domain for many years, significant and widespread adoptions have not yet taken place. The goal of this literature review is to gain an overview and a better understanding of agile methods for embedded software development in the automotive domain, especially with respect to product line development. A mapping study was conducted to analyze the relation between agile software development, embedded software development in the automotive domain and software product line development. Three research questions were defined and 68 papers were evaluated. The study shows that agile and product line development approaches tailored for the automotive domain are not yet fully explored in the literature. Especially, literature on the combination of agile and product line development is rare. Most of the examined combinations are customizations of generic approaches or approaches stemming from other domains. Although, only few approaches for combining agile and software product line development in the automotive domain were found, these findings were valuable for identifying research gaps and provide insights into how existing approaches can be combined, extended and tailored to suit the characteristics of the automotive domain.
Highlights
The need for creating digitally enhanced products, services, and experiences as well as the emergence of new or modiĄed business models has a signiĄcant impact on the automotive domain
Agile methods are not tailored to the speciĄc characteristics of the automotive domain such as software product line (SPLs) development
We conducted a comprehensive literature study [Ho17] that gives an overview of agile methods for embedded software development in the automotive domain, especially with respect to SPLs
Summary
The need for creating digitally enhanced products, services, and experiences as well as the emergence of new or modiĄed business models has a signiĄcant impact on the automotive domain. Agile methods are promising approaches to address these new challenges. Agile methods are not tailored to the speciĄc characteristics of the automotive domain such as software product line (SPLs) development. We conducted a comprehensive literature study [Ho17] that gives an overview of agile methods for embedded software development in the automotive domain, especially with respect to SPLs. We limited the scope to automotive embedded software development.
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