Process Model Tailoring and Assessment for Automotive Certification Objectives

For being aligned with the growing demands in certification, companies in embedded systems have gradually defined generic organizational process to support maturity models, e.g., CMMI or SPICE. However, such organizational process is not appropriate to fit project specific context and characteristics. It is usual for companies to customize the organizational process with respect to particularities of each project. The customization, done manually in general, is time consuming and error prone regarding the large amount of data to manipulate. This paper presents an automated solution for generating process models with regards to specific projects in a certification purpose. We develop a modeling framework, which enable tailoring of an organizational process based on the current context and characteristics of each project as well as the ISO 26262 and SPICE constraints. The framework uses an existing process measurement artifact to automatically assess project achievement during product development. We evaluate our approach on an automotive body controller project. The results match the expectations of the standards and the current company practices, demonstrating its feasibility and effectiveness.