Integration of Agile Methods in Automotive Software Development Processes

Agile practices are widely used approaches in software development due to its flexible, timely delivery, implementation affluence, and iterative nature. Considering wide range of benefits, automotive industry is also moving from traditional approaches towards agile practices for the development of automotive software's. The key challenges in automotive software are safety, complexity, user involvement, flexibility and innovation; which are difficult to handle by implementing traditional approaches. In order to overcome these challenges, it is essential to adopt such methods which should be flexible, fast with change management and user participation and can accomplish the automotive requirements and standards. Therefore, to accelerate the development process in automotive software there is a need to integrate agile development processes. This paper gives insights to the implementation of agile methods and to understand the effect of combined usage of agile processes and V model in the development of automotive software. This paper reveals that from both research and industrial perspective, it is still not clear how to combine two approaches i.e. agile methods and V model. The findings of this paper show that combined use of agile processes and V model in the development of automotive software is promising and there is a need to develop a significant approach that combines agile methods and V model for automotive software development.