Title :
One Decade of Software Process Assessments in Automotive: A Retrospective Analysis
Author :
Fabbrini, Fabrizio ; Fusani, Mario ; Lami, Giuseppe
Author_Institution :
Ist. di Sci. e Tecnol. dell´´Inf. A.Faedo, Consiglio Naz. delle Ric., Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
Automotive is an application domain that witnessed a fast technology evolution in the last decade. Such an evolution determined new challenges and consequent technical and cultural changes in the way automobiles are designed and produced. In particular, to face the ever increasing number and complexity of software-intensive components the car manufacturers adopted different countermeasures, as the use of software process assessments (mainly based on the ISO/IEC 15504 standard) in software supplierspsila management. After almost a decade and hundreds of assessments performed world-wide, it is time to evaluate the effects obtained. In this paper the authors, on the basis of a extensive experience in leading software process assessment in automotive, describe the achievements and discuss the open issues to identify possible solutions.
Keywords :
IEC standards; ISO standards; automobile industry; automotive electronics; software development management; software process improvement; software standards; ISO/IEC 15504 standard; automotive; car manufacturer; retrospective analysis; software process assessment; software supplier management; software-intensive component complexity; Automobile manufacture; Automotive engineering; Cultural differences; IEC standards; ISO standards; Manufacturing processes; Programming; Pulp manufacturing; Software standards; Vehicles; ISO/IEC 15504; software acquisition; software process assessment; software process improvement;
Conference_Titel :
Computing in the Global Information Technology, 2009. ICCGI '09. Fourth International Multi-Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, La Bocca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4680-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3751-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCGI.2009.50
