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Assessing Agile in Automotive Embedded Development Projects Using Automotive SPICE 3.1

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2018)

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Automotive SPICE ® represents an assessment model which is used world-wide in mechatronic automotive projects where software is an essential part of the control system. In November 2018 a new version Automotive SPICE 3.1 has been published. This new version comes with an additional Automotive SPICE Guideline 1st Edition 2017 from VDA (available from Jan. 2018) which serves as a guideline to correctly interpret Automotive SPICE® 3.1. This Automotive SPICE Guideline for the interpretation of Automotive SPICE ® 3.1 includes rating rules and rating recommendations for agile projects. This article analyses these new rules and recommendations and illustrates how Automotive SPICE assessors will evaluate agile projects.

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We are grateful to iNTACS (www.intacs.info) and VDA for the development of the Automotive SPICE ® 3.1 and the Automotive SPICE Guideline as a guideline to interpret the assessment model.

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Messnarz, R., Sechser, B., Höhn, H., Lehmann, V., Ekert, D. (2018). Assessing Agile in Automotive Embedded Development Projects Using Automotive SPICE 3.1. In: Larrucea, X., Santamaria, I., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_38

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