EmbedTime.comUntil recently, in the automotive industry, reuse of software has entirely
been a typical activity of suppliers. They try to reduce the
increasing software development costs that stem from rising complexity
and size of software in the modern automobile. Lately, also
the automotive manufacturers began to develop specific software
with competitive relevance.
Now they have to deal with the problem of reuse, too. Nevertheless, there is a difference between the manufacturers’ and the suppliers’ point of view because the manufacturers have to integrate the networked hardware components
to one automotive system. Therefore, the manufacturers have to deal with additional problems compared to the supplier. At the beginning of this paper, the specific problems of reuse of software in the automotive domain are shown from the perspective of automotive manufacturers. After that, a framework is proposed to deal with these problems. Moreover, the application of this framework
is shown in a realistic application example.
By:
Bernd Hardung
Thorsten Kölzow
Andreas Krüger