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Empower Software-defined Vehicles for a Safer and Smoother Journey
The automotive industry continuously experiences significant transformations due to technological advancements and an increased focus on sustainability. In addition to the rapid growth in software components—whether for intelligent drives, sensors, monitoring systems, etc.— end users themselves are also increasing their functionality demands.
How do you adapt to growth and increasing demands without compromising the quality and safety of your automotive software? By analyzing and testing your software from day one.
Navigate the Architecture of your Automotive Software
Software used in cars and other vehicles has a long lifecycle and typically needs to be maintained over decades to ensure the safety of a system or modified to add new features. It is important for software architects, project managers, and developers to easily understand how the different parts of the software work together. Automotive software systems are deeply complex and changes to one part might unintentionally affect other systems, jeopardizing the overall quality and safety of the software.
Over the years different people, teams and suppliers add code to the software. To be able to calculate the time and effort needed to make changes and add features, you need to rely on the code matching the documented software architecture. This is achieved by implementing automated architecture checks, which detect any deviation from the mapped structure on a daily basis.
Pave the Road to Automotive Software Quality
Detecting and addressing issues in your code at an early stage minimizes development expenses and consequently results in a more favorable return on investment (ROI). In addition, high code quality enhances the life-time of your software and makes it easier to update safety-relevant features.
Static code analysis
To detect flaws in the software, violations of industry standards such as ISO 26262 and to stop software erosion (also known as technical debt), continuous analysis of your code is needed. Proactively, identifying and resolving errors before the code is executed, enhances software quality and simplifies the testing process by addressing issues at an early stage.
Learn more about static code analysis with Axivion
Code coverage analysis
Beyond fulfilling requirements, a code coverage analysis is critical in ensuring robustness and identifying untested code segments, particularly for high-stakes applications like automotive software. Only comprehensive testing across multiple platforms can truly assure that safety-critical systems do not fail. Code coverage analysis will also help determine if areas in your code require refactoring and assist you in identifying avoidable performance slowdowns.
The Fast Lane to Success: Automated GUI Testing
Displays in vehicles - whether to provide information or for entertainment - have become the new standard. Additionally, various devices and apps can be connected to a system. Ensuring these operate flawlessly and do not compromise the safety and security of an automobile is of paramount importance.
This can be achieved by utilizing automated GUI testing. Integrating routine or custom-triggered test executions into the development process, identifies regressions before builds get to QA. By facilitating swift bug identification early on you can mitigate costly escalations and uphold software integrity.
