Improving the Continuous Integration Pro cess for the Vehicle Dynamics Software at VCC using Docker

Abstract

his research studies the implications that merging Docker with Continuous Integra tion has on automotive software architecture. This is important because continuous software quality assurance is crucial for safety-critical automotive software. Contin uous integration promotes this quality assurance by fetching the test environment then running tests on the product every time there is a new software update. Docker is used in this study to containerize the test environment and the product under test to decrease the time it takes to finish these tasks. To evaluate the impact of Docker, a number of time criteria were used to measure the time it takes to get feedback from tests in three different Docker scenarios implemented in Continuous integration. The findings from these evaluations show that Docker can decrease time up to 50.38 per cent. This study concludes by explaining how using every one of these Docker scenarios can impact the software architecture of automotive software. We show this impact on a specific automotive product called Vehicular Dynamics software.