In today’s rapidly evolving automotive industry, delivering secure, reliable, and regulation-compliant software faster than your competitors is no longer just an option it’s essential for the sustainability of your business. With Codebeamer ALM, you can streamline your entire process from requirements management to testing and validation, ensuring seamless collaboration between your teams and suppliers.
Whether you are working on autonomous driving systems, connected vehicles, or safety-critical components, Codebeamer provides the tools and visibility you need to shorten time-to-market, reduce costs, and meet stringent industry regulations.
Contact our team today to learn how Codebeamer can transform your automotive software lifecycle management and give you a competitive edge.
In today’s fast-evolving automotive landscape, the ability to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant software faster than the competition is no longer optional it’s a business imperative. With Codebeamer ALM, your organization can streamline requirements, testing, and validation while ensuring seamless collaboration across teams and suppliers.
Whether you’re working on autonomous driving systems, connected vehicles, or safety-critical components, Codebeamer provides the tools and visibility needed to accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs, and meet stringent industry regulations.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) refers to overseeing a software application from its initial concept through to its retirement. Unlike the software development lifecycle, which focuses on phases such as design, coding, and testing, ALM extends beyond deployment—covering ongoing updates, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning. It involves people, processes, and tools working together to manage the full life of an application.
ALM also represents a shift in how software development is approached, aligning closely with DevOps principles. Traditionally, development teams would deliver a completed application to operations for deployment and support. Today, agile practices keep developers engaged even after launch, enabling them to collaborate with business stakeholders and operations teams to implement continuous improvements as needed.
One effective ALM platform is Codebeamer by PTC, designed to address the complexities of both software and hardware development. With its advanced features, Codebeamer enables the management of multiple lifecycle stages while supporting the entire software development process. This empowers automotive manufacturers to deliver higher-quality products in less time.
By leveraging Codebeamer ALM, organizations can enhance team collaboration, streamline workflows, and reduce development costs and time-to-market. The platform ensures product reliability and quality by covering every stage—from capturing requirements and managing demand to development, testing, release, and ongoing operations.
When it comes to orchestrating the embedded software validation process with Codebeamer, several key trends are shaping the automotive landscape. Emerging technologies such as autonomous driving, the rise of vehicle-on-demand services, connected cars, and software-defined vehicles are all increasing the demand for robust validation to ensure cybersecurity and functional safety.
As validation requirements grow, manufacturers are turning to virtualization and “shift-left” strategies bringing validation activities earlier into the requirements phase. Continuous verification has also become essential, enabling teams to validate and deliver updates on an ongoing basis.
Another notable trend is impact-based validation, where only the affected requirements or features are tested after a change, reducing both time and costs. Additionally, integrating validation into compliance processes is becoming critical allowing organizations to store, track, and retrieve validation records to meet audit and regulatory needs efficiently.
The automotive industry requires robust solutions to overcome the complexities of validation, yet no single tool can manage the entire orchestration process on its own. Addressing this challenge calls for an integrated approach—and that’s where Codebeamer comes into play. Several key elements must be considered when tackling the validation management challenge.
First, a centralized tool is needed to design and structure test cases and test plans. Next, executing these tests should be seamlessly integrated into an ALM platform such as Codebeamer that supports a variety of test frameworks. Once all processes are unified under ALM, validation reporting and dashboarding can be fully automated and managed from a single platform.
Throughout this process, compliance with industry standards is critical. These include ISO 26262 (functional safety in automotive), ASPICE (Automotive SPICE – process improvement and assessment), ISO/SAE 21434 (automotive cybersecurity), and, where applicable, IEC 61508 (functional safety for electronic systems). Codebeamer can be configured to meet these standards, ensuring both product reliability and regulatory compliance.
External collaboration is equally important, enabling suppliers to share validation reports directly with OEMs. Moreover, reusing existing validation assets can significantly reduce both cost and time. By managing all these elements while ensuring trust, traceability, and process integrity, Codebeamer stands as the central piece of the validation management puzzle.
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