Category: File Date: 2007-08-01 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 292 KB

Optimizing Supplier Management in Global Software Engineering

Global software engineering is the consequence of the rather friction-free economic principles of the entire software industry. Many such distributed projects however are not successful and do not deliver the expected savings. GSE bears many challenges, specifically if done with an external supplier. We will look in this article to lessons learned from GSE to effectively and successfully manage supplier relationships. Both experiences and practical guidance result from our work with clients in automotive and telecommunication industries. They can be readily implemented, specifically our checklists for effective supplier management. ...

Category: File Date: 2009-06-16 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 595 KB

Improving the Exchange of Requirements and Specifications between Business Partners

Improving the Exchange of Requirements and Specifications between Business Partners. Increasingly complex supplier-relationships dominate product development, independent of industries and products. Mostly the primary source of risks and later problems is insufficient coherence with requirements engineering methodology and collaboration between different business partners during the project. This article based on experiences from various industries and projects provides insight into how to effectively collaborate in requirements engineering. The Requirements Interchange Format has quickly moved forward over the past two years first in automotive and currently starting in domains such as...

Category: File Date: 2011-09-17 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 186 KB

Introducing Automotive E/E Safety Engineering: Challenges and Solutions

Functions such as adaptive cruise control, crash protection systems, active body control and ESP are increasing in complexity and taking an ever more active role in controlling the car. These functions are realized by systems of sensors, actuators and interconnected electronic control units. The systems must be designed to function under a variety of operating conditions and must adhere to a number of mechanical, hardware and software constraints. In order to be able to manage the emerging product liability risks associated with such systems as well as ensuring the high level of quality required of automotive systems, significant improvements to engineering processes are necessary. In...

Category: File Date: 2007-09-04 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 2 MB

Effectively utilizing project, product and process knowledge

Improving project management, product development and engineering processes is for many companies crucial to survive in a fast changing environment. However, these activities are rarely integrated well due to the diversity of stakeholders with individual knowledge about projects, products and processes. This case study shows how Alcatel-Lucent over time achieved effective interaction of engineering processes, tools and people on the basis of a knowledge-centric product life-cycle management (PLM).

Category: File Date: 2010-04-16 Language: German Type: PDF Size: 2 MB

Improving automotive electronic engineering efficiency with automated processes

Der steigende Kostendruck zwingt Hersteller und ihre Zulieferer dazu, die Entwicklung durchgängig und systematisch zu beherrschen. Unsere Fallstudie zeigt, wie Volvo ein wirkungsvolles Zusammenspiel von Entwicklungsprozessen, -Werkzeugen und den beteiligten Ingenieuren auf der Grundlage von Produkt-Lebenszyklus-Management (PLM) eingeführt hat.

Category: File Date: 2015-03-01 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 473 KB

Success Factors for Security Engineering

Thorough security engineering is critical for the advance of automotive electronic systems. Functional safety today needs information security. Based on the specific challenges of automotive security, OEMs and suppliers have to realize an effective protection against manipulations of automotive E/E systems. Key points in the development of protected E/E systems are the proper identification of security requirements, the systematic realization of security functions, and a security validation to demonstrate that security requirements have been met. Based on our experiences in several client projects, we show which security engineering activities are required to create secure systems and...

Category: File Date: 2018-03-12 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 687 KB

Industry Trends 2018

Functional safety and cyber security must be systematically developed and implemented in parallel. Currently this is often done in piecemeal, as industry standards and methods for safety and security are quite isolated from each other. This previously established separation of the two "disciplines" each with its own standards and procedures is not sustainable because of dependencies and mutual influences are overlooked. In addition, a separate procedure is inefficient because many functions have to be touched several times.

Category: File Date: 2018-10-09 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 330 KB

Baseline Testing: The Key to Reducing Technical Debt in Legacy Code Bases

Many companies are now discovering the technical debt that has accumulated in the software that they have released. This is a growing problem as these deployed/fielded applications are based on legacy code that doesn’t have the proper regression test suite to ensure application correctness. Often the lack of sufficient tests means that a software application cannot be easily modified since changes can break existing functionality. This whitepaper discusses an approach called Baseline Testing, also known as characterization testing, and how it can be used to capture current legacy code behavior, enabling developers to successfully develop new applications or improve existing...

Category: File Date: 2018-09-10 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 128 KB

Change-Based Testing for Efficient Software Development

According to recent Cambridge University research, the global cost of debugging software has risen to $312 billion annually. This number tells us that the software industry has a serious quality problem, and that companies are spending incredible amounts of money treating the symptom, but not nearly enough remedying the cause. A major cause of software bugs is inefficient and incomplete testing. This paper will focus on techniques that can be used to improve testing efficiency.

Category: File Date: 2018-10-09 Language: English Type: PDF Size: 116 KB

Building a Flexible and Automated Testing Infrastructure Using VectorCAST/Manage and Jenkins

Software is usually developed in three separate workflow phases. First the software is designed, then it’s coded, and finally the engineers will test the code. However this process often leads to bugs, faults in the design, and an extended testing phase which can be 2-3 times longer than the development phase. These problems will often delay the software release time and cause the company to go considerably over their budget. The price of fixing a software bug when it’s introduced compared to after the software is deployed to thousands of customers is staggering. The most effective solution to this problem is to develop software using continuous integration testing. This whitepaper...