Automotive Software Industry Research Articles

Specification Inference Using Systematic Reverse-Engineering Methodologies: An Automotive Industry Application

Lack of precise specification is a well-known problem in the software industry. This article covers some peculiar aspects of the problem and its causes in the automotive software industry. The authors describe how the situation motivates engineers to grasp reverse-engineering methodologies to comprehend third-party components. They developed a novel approach for reverse-engineering components, which they applied to a recent project on testing embedded systems of a modern vehicle.

Automotive–adept: A lightweight assessment method for the automotive software industry

AbstractIn this article we describe how a lightweight assessment method was developed to educate Irish software small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs)1 in relation to becoming automotive software suppliers. The main goal of this assessment method is to provide software SMEs with a software process improvement (SPI) path to becoming automotive software suppliers. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.