Software Engineering in the Embedded Software and Mobile Robot Software Development: A Systematic Mapping.

Abstract

Currently, embedded software have been required more and more by a diversity of new products. As a consequence, an increase in the software complexity can be observed, requiring more attention to the software quality. Initiatives of exploring software engineering knowledge to develop this type of software can be identified, resulting in the Embedded Software Engineering (ESE) research area. However, there is a lack of a complete panorama about researches conducted in the context of ESE. This paper intends to present a view about how software engineering has been currently used in the embedded software development. For this, we have used systematic mapping, a technique based on the Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE). Achieved results point out that in spite of the increase in the interest of applying software engineering to develop embedded software, there are still important lines of research that must receive attention.