Practice of hybrid approach to develop state-based control embedded software product line

Abstract

As automotive manufacturing business has transited from mechanical engineering to software engineering, standardization with architecture framework and process improvement with process maturity model has been required. It means the software quality and productivity is getting important. Software product line is very successful engineering methodology since automotive software is very huge and high complex system but there are so many suppliers which supplies specific component to upper level of tier. It is possible and necessary to develop the software product line for each specific components. So far, it is not enough example or guidelines for software product line in automotive domain. In this paper, we explore the process and techniques for software product line development in state-based control embedded air conditioning control system.