Developing Adaptive Lighting in an Agile Software Factory

The establishment and extension of advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) is one of the automotive megatrends. This impacts software development heavily: compiexity and extend increase and quality and especially safety requirements will be more demanding. Additionally, customers demand suitable quality at minimum costs and time. In order to resolve this conflict of interests, new development approaches need to be found. This paper shows an approach how advantages of two disciplines can be combined to resolve this conflict: Factory-oriented methods bring-in detailed process definition, high degree of automation and strong division of labor. Agile development methods include continuous adaption to customer needs, quick changes and short cycle-planning. As a result, we develop software in an "Agile Software Factory. For the development of adaptive lighting functions for future Ford vehicles, we outline how specification could be quickly and flexibly transformed into high quality software, As a result, development time and costs are not affected while SW quality is even increased.