EUREKA ITEA SmartDelta: Automated Quality Assurance andOptimization in Incremental Industrial SoftwareSystems Development
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | ALSTOM Rail Sweden AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 14 923 475 |
| Project duration | December 2021 - May 2025 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Eureka cluster co-funding |
Important results from the project
Software-intensive systems are typically not designed and built from scratch for each new customer and order, but rather as increments over an existing product. SmartDelta aimed to develop automated solutions for quality assessment of product deltas in a continuous engineering environment. Towards this goal, SmartDelta introduced a methodology and a rich toolset for delta-aware management of software quality, which were evaluated and applied on 11 industrial use-cases from 8 different domains.
Expected long term effects
The SmartDelta Methodology and the toolsets introduced in the project enable companies to efficiently manage and improve product quality across different software versions and variants. This helps companies stay ahead in the competitive industrial software market. As a concrete example, the methodology has already demonstrated strong results in the railway domain for Alstom Rail Sweden by improving how requirements are managed, test cases are generated, and code quality is ensured.
Approach and implementation
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden has been the international coordinator of SmartDelta with Alstom being the Swedish consortium coordinator. The Swedish consortium consisted of Alstom Rail Sweden, Mälardalen University, Addiva, and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Västerås. The project work was structured into seven work packages with two of them being led by the Swedish partners, with close collaborations with partners from Germany, Canada, Turkiye, Finland, Austria, Spain, and Belgium.