The automotive CASE

Abstract

The increasing functionality and complexity of modern automotive embedded systems demand new ways of mastering their intricacies. The standard response to this challenge is the use of abstractions, of appropriate structuring concepts, and, related, but less important, of suitable description techniques. Such ideas materialize in CASE tools. We shed light on CASE in the context of complex embedded systems, taking into account the different activities and phases of a development process. Clearly, integrated tool support is desirable for issues as different as requirements engineering, deployment, code generation, and validation. However, this is far from being simple since different levels of abstraction need to be interrelated. For instance, the embedding of generated code into its context of models and an actual environment. We give our assessment of current and future CASE tools.