Incorporation of Model-Based System and Software Development Environments

Development of dependable embedded automotive systems faces many challenges arising from increasing complexity, criticality, and demand of certifiability. Efficient and consistent development models along the entire development life cycle needs to be ensured. So far, existing solutions are still frequently insufficient when transforming system models with higher level of abstraction to more concrete engineering models (such as software engineering models). De facto industry standards aims to standardize frameworks and to facilitate the exchange of information. However, refinement of system designs into hardware and software implementations is still a tedious task. The aim of this work is to enhance an automotive model-driven system engineering framework with software architecture design capabilities and a model transformation framework to enable a seamless description of safety-critical systems, from requirements at the system level down to software component implementation in a bidirectional way.