Collaborative Development of Safety-Critical Automotive Systems: Exchange, Views and Metrics

Automotive system development involves a large set of organizations and disciplines. In particular, vehicle manufacturers rely on a large set of suppliers to provide components and systems. To successfully develop and integrate these components, stakeholders exchange requirement specifications that define in detail the component properties. Because of the complexity of a typical automotive system, requirement specifications are error prone and time consuming to negotiate with a correct result. In addition, most systems have safety implications and require rigorous means to achieve and argue safety. Recent autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are particularly complex and critical.