AHAA-agile, hybrid assessment method for automotive, safety critical SMEs

Fergal Mc Caffery, Minna Pikkarainen, Ita Richardson

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Abstract

The need for software is increasingly growing in the automotive industry. Software development projects are, however, often troubled by time and budget overruns, resulting in systems that do not fulfill customer requirements. Both research and industry lack strategies to combine reducing the long software development lifecycles (as required by time-to-market demands) with increasing the quality of the software developed. Software process improvement (SPI) provides the first step in the move towards software quality, and assessments are a vital part of this process. Unfortunately, software process assessments are often expensive and time consuming. Additionally, they often provide companies with a long list of issues without providing realistic suggestions. The goal of this paper is to describe a new low-overhead assessment method that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized (SMEs) organisations wishing to be automotive software suppliers. This assessment method integrates the structured-ness of the plan-driven SPI models of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and Automotive SPICE™ with the flexibleness of agile practices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSE'08
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering 2008
Pages551-560
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event30th International Conference on Software Engineering 2008, ICSE'08 - Leipzig, Germany
Duration: 10 May 200818 May 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference30th International Conference on Software Engineering 2008, ICSE'08
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityLeipzig
Period10/05/0818/05/08

Keywords

  • Agile practices
  • Assessment methods
  • Automotive SPICE™
  • CMMI
  • Safety-critical
  • Software process improvement

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