Mastering erosion of software architecture in automotive software product lines

Arthur Strasser; Benjamin Cool; Christoph Gernert; Christoph Knieke; Marco Körner; Dirk Niebuhr; Henrik Peters; Andreas Rausch; Oliver Brox; Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried; Hanno Jelden; Stefan Klie; Michael Krämer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04298-5_43

Mastering erosion of software architecture in automotive software product lines

Arthur Strasser, Benjamin Cool, Christoph Gernert, Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Dirk Niebuhr, Henrik Peters, Andreas Rausch, Oliver Brox, Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried, Hanno Jelden, Stefan Klie, Michael Krämer

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Abstract

Most automobile manufacturers maintain many vehicle types to keep a successful position on the market. Through the further development all vehicle types gain a diverse amount of new functionality. Additional features have to be supported by the car's software. For time efficient accomplishment, usually the existing electronic control unit (ECU) code is extended. In the majority of cases this evolutionary development process is accompanied by a constant decay of the software architecture. This effect known as software erosion leads to an increasing deviation from the requirements specifications. To counteract the erosion it is necessary to continuously restore the architecture in respect of the specification. Automobile manufacturers cope with the erosion of their ECU software with varying degree of success. Successfully we applied a methodical and structured approach of architecture restoration in the specific case of the brake servo unit (BSU). Software product lines from existing BSU variants were extracted by explicit projection of the architecture variability and decomposition of the original architecture. After initial application, this approach was capable to restore the BSU architecture recurrently.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SOFSEM 2014
Subtitle of host publication	Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	491-502
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319042978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04298-5_43
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2014 - Novy Smokovec, Slovakia Duration: 26 Jan 2014 → 29 Jan 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8327 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2014
Country/Territory	Slovakia
City	Novy Smokovec
Period	26/01/14 → 29/01/14

Keywords

Architecture design
Automotive
Engineering methodologies
Model driven development
Reuse
Software erosion
Software product lines

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Strasser, A., Cool, B., Gernert, C., Knieke, C., Körner, M., Niebuhr, D., Peters, H., Rausch, A., Brox, O., Jauns-Seyfried, S., Jelden, H., Klie, S., & Krämer, M. (2014). Mastering erosion of software architecture in automotive software product lines. In SOFSEM 2014: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings (pp. 491-502). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8327 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04298-5_43

Strasser, Arthur ; Cool, Benjamin ; Gernert, Christoph et al. / Mastering erosion of software architecture in automotive software product lines. SOFSEM 2014: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 491-502 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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