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Testing in Automotive SPICE and TestSPICE: Synergies and Benefits

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2017)

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The paper describes the overall structure of Automotive SPICE and TestSPICE. It presents a comparison between the processes in Automotive SPICE® and TestSPICE and then focuses on the testing processes and some specific test topics. The paper shows potential benefits of TestSPICE for the automotive industry. It deals with topics like test data management, test automation and test techniques, which are not or only roughly mentioned in Automotive SPICE. The paper also gives a short explanation of the agile extension of TestSPICE.

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    Automotive SPICE 3.0 is compliant to the latest version of the SPICE standard ISO/IEC 33004.

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    In TestSPICE the term „test stage“ is synonymous to „test level“.

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Schweigert, T., Dussa-Zieger, K. (2017). Testing in Automotive SPICE and TestSPICE: Synergies and Benefits. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 770. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_20

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