Software traceability in the automotive domain: Challenges and solutions

Maro, Salome; Steghöfer, Jan-Philipp; Staron, Miroslaw

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.03.060

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“…We are facing a known need that the big industrial players have wanted to solve on different occasions [4][5][6][7]. The large industries have designed and built traceability systems based on traditional (centralized) architectures and have made them available throughout their sectorial supply chain.…”

Section: Traceabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain: From Industry 4.0 to the Machine Economy

Lage¹

2020

Computer Security Threats

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The extreme automation of our factories is necessary in order to face the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This new industrial paradigm will force our industries to manufacture much shorter and customized series at increasingly competitive prices, even tackling the manufacture of thousands of different configurations of a single base product. In order to achieve this, our production processes must have a flexibility in their configuration that has never been imagined before. This flexibility and ability to adapt automatically to demand are the essence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and are part of the Western strategy to recover an industrial sector increasingly threatened by the Eastern production of large series at really competitive prices. Based on our participation in more than a dozen proofs of concept in the automotive, aeronautics, agri-food, or energy sectors, we describe the scenarios in which blockchain technology brings the greatest benefits to Industry 4.0. After finishing different experimentations, we carried out an in-depth analysis of the true added value of blockchain in the industry and contrasted our conclusions through interviews with more than 20 people in charge of innovation from different industries. As a result, we have obtained the principal four values of blockchain technology applied to Industry 4.0.

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Section: Traceabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain: From Industry 4.0 to the Machine Economy

Lage¹

2020

Computer Security Threats

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“…Moreover, the automotive domain requires a variety of quality attributes to be fulfilled in distributed development environments with short cycle times . It is a domain in which knowledge management is of crucial importance, which requires ways to manage traceability() and scattered information . Challenges can be observed when designing the software architecture of automotive systems, as practitioners struggle with the creation of meaningful documentation that can be shared across organizational boundaries .…”

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Boundary objects and their use in agile systems engineering

Wohlrab

Knauss

Larsson

2019

J Software Evolu Process

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Summary Agile methods are increasingly introduced in automotive companies in the attempt to become more efficient and flexible in the system development. The adoption of agile practices influences communication between stakeholders and makes companies rethink the management of artifacts and documentation like requirements, safety compliance documents, and architecture models. Practitioners aim to reduce irrelevant documentation but face a lack of guidance to determine what artifacts are needed and how they should be managed. This paper presents artifacts, challenges, guidelines, and practices for the continuous management of systems engineering artifacts in automotive based on a theoretical and empirical understanding of the topic. In collaboration with 53 practitioners from six automotive companies, we conducted a design‐science study involving interviews, a questionnaire, focus groups, and practical data analysis of a systems engineering tool. The guidelines suggest the distinction between artifacts that are shared among different actors in a company (boundary objects) and those that are used within a team (locally relevant artifacts). We propose an analysis approach to identify boundary objects and three practices to manage systems engineering artifacts in industry.

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“…The idea of "living traceability" as an ongoing set of activities that are part of the daily work of the developers bears a strong resemblance to ubiquitous traceability [4], an idea championed in the traceability literature. While challenges to traceability in the automotive domain have been described elsewhere (see, e.g., [18]), this study adds additional challenges on a more technical level, e.g., about creating baselines. These challenges are nonetheless important, since their solution will decide about wide-spread adoption of traceability practices in industry.…”

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Challenges of Scaled Agile for Safety-Critical Systems

Steghöfer

Knauss

Horkoff

et al. 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Automotive companies increasingly adopt scaled agile methods to allow them to deal with their organisational and product complexity. Suitable methods are needed to ensure safety when developing automotive systems. On a small scale, R-Scrum and SafeScrum ® are two concrete suggestions for how to develop safety-critical systems using agile methods. However, for large-scale environments, existing frameworks like SAFe or LeSS do not support the development of safety-critical systems out of the box. We, therefore, aim to understand which challenges exist when developing safety-critical systems within large-scale agile industrial settings, in particular in the automotive domain. Based on an analysis of R-Scrum and SafeScrum ® , we conducted a focus group with three experts from industry to collect challenges in their daily work. We found challenges in the areas of living traceability, continuous compliance, and organisational flexibility. Among others, organisations struggle with defining a suitable traceability strategy, performing incremental safety analysis, and with integrating safety practices into their scaled way of working. Our results indicate a need to provide practical approaches to integrate safety work into large-scale agile development and point towards possible solutions, e.g., modular safety cases.

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Software traceability in the automotive domain: Challenges and solutions

Cited by 51 publications

References 25 publications

Blockchain: From Industry 4.0 to the Machine Economy

Blockchain: From Industry 4.0 to the Machine Economy

Boundary objects and their use in agile systems engineering

Challenges of Scaled Agile for Safety-Critical Systems

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