The Evaluation Knowledge of Standard Software Asset using The Seven Samurai Framework

The knowledge which is needed on automotive software development, increases significantly according to large-scale, complexity of automotive software. Therefore, it is very difficult for an engineer to understand the whole software development. This paper introduces a way of constructing a meta-model, which visualizes the knowledge of expert engineers, based on The Seven Samurai framework. It can solve issues of system development by considering the seven types of elements which are defined in this framework. And then, its name was defined based on the famous Japanese cinema. Additionally, this paper shows the evaluation results of applying the meta-model to the evaluation of actual standard software assets in the product line, and then the effectiveness of the proposed approach is confirmed based on the results.