Assessing Agile in Automotive Embedded Development Projects Using Automotive SPICE 3.1

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.