Solving automotive SPICE open issues: An Italian initiative

This paper presents the results of the ASAI (Automotive SPICE Assessors and Improvers) working group. The aim of the ASAI is to address open issues in the real application of the standard Automotive SPICE in the automotive industry. The outcomes of the ASAI activities are a set of guidelines on how some relevant open issues (expressed by means of questions) can be addressed and solved. These guidelines have been achieved by consensus after joint analysis and discussions. The purpose of this paper is to provide developers, assessors, improvers and, in general, the whole automotive software community, with a reference when specific decisions have to be taken for solving defined open issues in applying Automotive SPICE. Moreover, we hope this paper could be able to trigger a larger discussion for enhancing the uniformity and validity of Automotive SPICE assessments.