Modern automotive electrical and electronic systems are rapidly growing in complexity. An increase in the number of systems under electronic control has led to a corresponding increase in the complexity of the deployed software. AUTOSAR has been developed as a means of managing this complexity through a standardised architecture which separates an application from its infrastructure. Reusable software components constitute the application logic of an AUTOSAR-based system. However a major problem which faces AUTOSAR and component-based software engineering in general is the difficulty in selecting components which fulfil the system requirements. This thesis presents a framework which allows requirements to be mapped directly to software components. It includes the results from a study which was carried out in conjunction with automotive and software engineering experts to test the framework
