Challenges of Complex Software Development for Emerging Technologies in Automotive Industry: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge Between the Industry Practitioners
2022-01-0167
03/29/2022
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- Content
- Automotive is one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world. The topics such as ride-sharing, connectivity, electrification and automation saw the fast changes in the industry. These include the more extended influence of software and computer science expertise into the previously more mechanical-engineering based industry. However, complex software development is relatively new for the automotive industry, which brings a lot of previously not seen challenges. For example, changes in development methodology have seen the discussions of agile methodology adoption into the said industry. Besides that, traditional inheritances from software engineering perspective such as 'technical debt' and 'feature prioritization' due to unsystematized software development should also be discussed. To yield the new innovations into the market safely, the challenges of software development for emerging technologies in the automotive industry should be understood. This paper highlights the challenges related to complex software development in the automotive industry. It will highlight the pain point that needs to be addressed for further improvements. The paper is aimed specifically to educate the practitioners, researchers, product and business experts in the automotive industry of the importance of producing good software quality for the automotive software-based product. The authors are convinced the paper will benefit the practitioners in the industry as well as the generic audience with interests in this topic. It will also bridge the gap of knowledge between "computer science"-background and "conventional automotive"-background engineers towards the automotive software development and safety topics.
- Citation
- Abdul Hamid, U., Zaman, M., and Irimescu , D., "Challenges of Complex Software Development for Emerging Technologies in Automotive Industry: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge Between the Industry Practitioners," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-0167, 2022, .