ISO 26262:  Software Development for Road Vehicles

The course explains the software development life cycle according to the ISO 26262 standard for functional safety of E/E systems in the automotive domain.

Course Goal

The goal is to get an understanding of what is covered in the software part of the ISO 26262 standard. The participants will get an understanding of the activities that are prescribed in the different phases of the reference model for the software development.

Participants

The course is suited for software engineers in the automotive domain.

Previous / Knowledge

Overview of ISO 26262 is recommended.

Content

Areas which will be covered are:

• The Software process in the big ISO 26262 Picture
• Methods and tools, tool qualification
• Management and partner relations
• ISO 26262 requirements – internal quality system
• Assessment and audits
• Formulation and verification of software requirements
• Software architectural design, freedom from interference, HW-SW interface
• Break-down of software safety requirements
• Design
• Integration and testing
• Verification of software safety requirements
• Product line engineering, configuration management
• Input to safety case