Incorporation of AUTOSAR in an Embedded Systems Development Process: A Case Study

AUTOSAR, the Automotive Open System Architecture, is growing to an accepted industrial standard for the development of automotive embedded software. The AUTOSAR design method describes a software development process starting at the architectural design up to the deployment of the developed software on embedded controllers. Since most companies already have their own system development process, the introduction of AUTOSAR will have a direct impact on these processes. In this paper we will demonstrate the integration of AUTOSAR in a system development process that is similar to an industrial development process. This process is validated by means of an ABS case study. It is shown that introducing AUTOSAR has a relative small impact on the existing system development process.