Integrating software engineering technologies for embedded systems development

In order to solve the ever-increasing gap between required productivity and quality of embedded software on the one hand, and the industrial capabilities in fulfilling these requirements on the other hand, several European organisations decided to tackle this problem together. By forming the MOOSE consortium ("Software Engineering Methodologies for Embedded Systems"), they started an effort for integrating the available tools, techniques, methods and processes involved in embedded software development. The main starting point of MOOSE is that the available technologies for embedded software development are too fragmented; time, effort and money can be saved by supporting a better integration over development phases and between technologies. This paper presents the starting points of the MOOSE project and introduces some first concepts for achieving the ambitious goals set by the consortium.