Experience of introducing reference architectures in the development of automotive electronic systems
Eklund, Ulrik ; Askerdal, Örjan ; Granholm, Johan LU
; Alminger, Anders
and Axelsson, Jakob
LU
(2005)
2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems, SEAS 2005
- Abstract
The requirements on increasing functionality, quality, and, customisation, while reducing cost has lead to the introduction of an architecture centred development process for electronic systems at Volvo Cars. This process enables better control of system integration and achieving non-functional requirements, such as reusability, understandability, etc. The result of the process is a reference architecture that includes strategies for implementing the balanced requirements, architectural views that provide means for reasoning about all the concerns of all stakeholders, and a top-level design of the architecturally significant parts. The reference architecture guides the design of several projects, and thus, cost is optimised accordingly.... (More)
The requirements on increasing functionality, quality, and, customisation, while reducing cost has lead to the introduction of an architecture centred development process for electronic systems at Volvo Cars. This process enables better control of system integration and achieving non-functional requirements, such as reusability, understandability, etc. The result of the process is a reference architecture that includes strategies for implementing the balanced requirements, architectural views that provide means for reasoning about all the concerns of all stakeholders, and a top-level design of the architecturally significant parts. The reference architecture guides the design of several projects, and thus, cost is optimised accordingly. The main contribution of this paper is that we present experiences from introducing the architecture centred process. The main conclusions are that disseminating and maintaining the reference architecture actually require more resources than developing it. Furthermore, experience shows it is difficult to create an architecture that enables a lot of different variants that is also strategically useable in the long term.
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- author
- Eklund, Ulrik
; Askerdal, Örjan
; Granholm, Johan
LU
; Alminger, Anders
and Axelsson, Jakob
LU
- publishing date
- 2005-05-21
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Automotive electronics and software, Non-functional requirements, Product line architecture, Reference architecture
- host publication
- SEAS 2005 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems
- publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- conference name
- 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems, SEAS 2005
- conference location
- St. Louis, United States
- conference dates
- 2005-05-21
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:84876098612
- ISBN
- 1595931287
- 9781595931283
- DOI
- 10.1145/1083190.1083195
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 43286609-56ae-4432-a732-16d571add236
- date added to LUP
- 2019-06-21 11:22:05
- date last changed
- 2023-08-30 12:11:28
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abstract = {{<p>The requirements on increasing functionality, quality, and, customisation, while reducing cost has lead to the introduction of an architecture centred development process for electronic systems at Volvo Cars. This process enables better control of system integration and achieving non-functional requirements, such as reusability, understandability, etc. The result of the process is a reference architecture that includes strategies for implementing the balanced requirements, architectural views that provide means for reasoning about all the concerns of all stakeholders, and a top-level design of the architecturally significant parts. The reference architecture guides the design of several projects, and thus, cost is optimised accordingly. The main contribution of this paper is that we present experiences from introducing the architecture centred process. The main conclusions are that disseminating and maintaining the reference architecture actually require more resources than developing it. Furthermore, experience shows it is difficult to create an architecture that enables a lot of different variants that is also strategically useable in the long term.</p>}},
author = {{Eklund, Ulrik and Askerdal, Örjan and Granholm, Johan and Alminger, Anders and Axelsson, Jakob}},
booktitle = {{SEAS 2005 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems}},
isbn = {{1595931287}},
keywords = {{Automotive electronics and software; Non-functional requirements; Product line architecture; Reference architecture}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{05}},
publisher = {{Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}},
title = {{Experience of introducing reference architectures in the development of automotive electronic systems}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1083190.1083195}},
doi = {{10.1145/1083190.1083195}},
year = {{2005}},
}