Methodology and Templates in AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System Architecture) is a worldwide development partnership of car manufacturers and suppliers. The goal is to provide an open standardized software architecture for the development of automotive systems. Besides the architecture, AUTOSAR specifies templates, which define the structure of the information that needs to be stored and shared during the development of an AUTOSAR conform system. Finally AUTOSAR provides a methodology, which defines the main development activities. This paper offers an introduction to the templates and the methodology.