Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive: Challenges and Recommendations

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (print)9781538614693
Publication statusPublished - 13 Aug 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Stuttgart, Germany
Duration: 17 Jun 201820 Jun 2018

Abstract

Software product lines (SPLs) are used throughout the automotive industry. SPLs help to manage the large number of variants and to improve quality by reuse. In order to develop high quality software faster, agile software development (ASD) practices are introduced. From both the research and the management point of view it is still not clear how these two approaches can be combined. We derive recommendations to combine ASD and SPLs based on challenges identified for an automotive-specific model. This study combines the outcome of a literature review and a qualitative interview study with 16 practitioners from the automotive domain. We evaluate the results and analyze the relationship between ASD and SPLs in the automotive domain. Furthermore, we derive recommendations to combine ASD and SPLs based on challenges identified in the automotive domain. This study identifies 86 individual challenges. Important challenges address supplier collaboration and faster software release cycles without loss of quality. The identified challenges and the derived recommendations show that the combination of ASD and SPL in the automotive industry is promising but not trivial. There is a need for an automotive-specific approach that combines ASD and SPL.

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    agile methods, ASPLA Model, automotive software development, software and system development process, software product line

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Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive: Challenges and Recommendations. / Hohl, Philipp; Stupperich, Michael; Münch, Jürgen et al.
2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. 8436277.

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Hohl, P, Stupperich, M, Münch, J & Schneider, K 2018, Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive: Challenges and Recommendations. in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings., 8436277, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018, Stuttgart, Germany, 17 Jun 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2018.8436277
Hohl, P., Stupperich, M., Münch, J., & Schneider, K. (2018). Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive: Challenges and Recommendations. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings Article 8436277 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2018.8436277
Hohl P, Stupperich M, Münch J, Schneider K. Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive: Challenges and Recommendations. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. 8436277 doi: 10.1109/ICE.2018.8436277
Hohl, Philipp ; Stupperich, Michael ; Münch, Jürgen et al. / Combining Agile Development and Software Product Lines in Automotive : Challenges and Recommendations. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018.
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