AMALTHEA — Tailoring tools to projects in automotive software development

Software Development for Automotive Systems is becoming more and more complex. Cars are turned into software intensive and to some extent software defined products by the increasing functionality of the various electronic control units (ECUs). Major driving factors for this development are complex human-machine-interfaces (HMI), eMobility and autonomous driving. Consequently, developing the software comes along with complex development projects and several partners. Different companies participate in such projects and form a value chain for the generation of a certain software system. Development tools have to support these project specific value chains. For this purpose the tools form a project-specific information supply chain. Ideally, they are connected to an automated tool chain. AMALTHEA provides an open source tool chain platform to support the setup of project specific development systems. This contribution presents the AMALTHEA tool chain environment and the underlying software development methodology. The concepts for the support of tailoring a tool chain and the standardization activities for the respective framework are described. Furthermore, an approach for the quantification of the efficiency and effectivity gains is described and key performance indicators are estimated.