Novelty Testing Measures and Defect Management in Automotive Software Development

Major automotive manufacturers are launching new software aiming for brand survival and to compete in the market. The biggest challenge is to battle to be at the centre of people's digital life taking new dimension every day. Innovative software is designed and renewed every hour towards further improvement and sophistication. In this fast pacing environment a minor defect in the software developed may lead to fatal accidents or malfunctioning of the equipment. Suitable testing measures are vital for the smooth functioning of the vehicle. Currently testing and fault analysis is done only after the Electronic Control Units are developed which makes the finding of specification related defects difficult and costly. This paper solves the problem using model based technique, detecting faults at an earlier stage and remodeling the design economically with less time consumption. Furthermore, Model Advisor is used to check whether the model designed adheres to the functional safety standards such as ISO-26262 and MISRA-C. A Simulink case study model for Adaptive Front Light System is developed and tested