Continuous Experimentation for Automotive Software on the Example of a Heavy Commercial Vehicle in Daily Operation
Paper i proceeding, 2020

As the automotive industry focuses its attention more and more towards the software functionality of vehicles, techniques to deliver new software value at a fast pace are needed.
Continuous Experimentation, a practice coming from the web-based systems world, is one of such techniques.
It enables researchers and developers to use real-world data to verify their hypothesis and steer the software evolution based on performances and user preferences, reducing the reliance on simulations and guesswork.
Several challenges prevent the verbatim adoption of this practice on automotive cyber-physical systems, e.g., safety concerns and limitations from computational resources; nonetheless, the automotive field is starting to take interest in this technique.
This work aims at demonstrating and evaluating a prototypical Continuous Experimentation infrastructure, implemented on a distributed computational system housed in a commercial truck tractor that is used in daily operations by a logistic company on public roads.
The system comprises computing units and sensors, and software deployment and data retrieval are only possible remotely via a mobile data connection due to the commercial interests of the logistics company.
This study shows that the proposed experimentation process resulted in the development team being able to base software development choices on the real-world data collected during the experimental procedure.
Additionally, a set of previously identified design criteria to enable Continuous Experimentation on automotive systems was discussed and their validity confirmed in the light of the presented work.

Cyber-Physical Systems

Continuous Experimentation

Software Architecture

Software Engineering

Automotive

Författare

Federico Giaimo

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Software Engineering

Christian Berger

Göteborgs universitet

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 12292 73-88
9783030589226 (ISBN)

14th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2020
L'Aquila, Italy,

Highly Automated Freight Transports EUTS (AutoFreight)

VINNOVA (2016-05415), 2017-04-01 -- 2020-02-29.

Highly Automated Freight Transports TSAF (AutoFreight)

VINNOVA (2016-05413), 2017-04-01 -- 2019-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

Inbäddad systemteknik

Infrastruktur

ReVeRe (Research Vehicle Resource)

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_5

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