Integrating ECUs in vehicles - Requirements engineering in series development

This paper describes the research concepts and methodological aspects of a joint project of Fraunhofer ISST and BMW AG for an improvement of recording and management of requirements in the series development for the automotive sector. In a project, normally more than one car variant is developed. Using this approach requirement recording can be done on project level as well as on a lower level, e.g. the level of a single car variant. To support an intensive reuse of requirement models the domain engineering approach is adapted to requirements engineering in that application domain. The methodology supports the recording of requirements on project level or lower and the reuse of established requirement structures of the domain for a new application and it shows a way, how requirement structures of an application can be made available for further reuse in the domain. In addition, different consistency checks are supported.