(E) ASPICE Understanding - 2

ASPICE has an official Website: http://www.automotivespice.com/

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by consensus of the car manufacturers within the Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG), a joint special interest group of The Procurement Forum and The SPICE User Group.

The members of the Automotive Special Interest Group include AUDI AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Fiat Auto S.p.A., Ford Werke GmbH, Jaguar, Land Rover, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Volkswagen AG and Volvo Car Corporation.

The Automotive SPICE® Process Assessment Model will be used to perform conformant assessments of the software process capability of automotive suppliers in accordance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 15504-2: 2003 and is based on ISO/IEC 15504-5: 2006.


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I think below words are good explanation why they start the ASPICE(in about - Introduction)
http://www.automotivespice.com/about/
"As project schedules get even shorter, the pressure on software development and target hardware costs get ever greater, and the potential recall and safety issues due to electronic systems malfunction becomes ever more calculable. With more than 85% of the functionality in the modern motor vehicle now controlled by software, both the motor vehicle manufacturer and the supplier need to take action to address these issues.

The motor vehicle manufacturers have started to take pro-active action to address the situation; by focussing on software capability of the supplier in the supplier evaluation process; making provision for contractual demands with respect to software quality: and in performing supplier software capability assessments both before and during contract performance. " 

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Download the latest version of the Automotive SPICE® Process Assessment Model (PAM) and Process Reference Model (PRM):
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Next I need to understand Abstract of the Document

(E)ASPICE Understanding - 1

ASPICE
is from SPICE
(Automotive) Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination.
originally
Software Process Improvement and Capability Evaluation.(do to meaning of 'Evaluation' in French)

1. So, I need to understand SPICE

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SPICE is ISO/IEC 15504

ISO(International Organization for Standardization)
IEC(International Electronitechnical Commision)
ISO, IEC joint subcommittee

SPICE is Capability Maturity Model(consisting of capability levels which in turn consist of the process attribute and further consist of generic practice)


The first versions of the standard focused exclusively on software development processes

expanded to cover all related processes in a software business(project management, configuration management, quality assurance, and so on)
 - organizational, management, engineering, acquisition supply, support, and operations

The Technical Report (TR) document for ISO/IEC TR 15504 was divided into 9 parts.
The 7th part is currently in an advanced Final Draft Standard form[3] and work has started on part 8.

Parts Summary
Part 1 of ISO/IEC TR 15504 explains the concepts and gives an overview of the framework.
part 2 refers to external process lifecycle standards including ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288.
Performing assessments is the subject of parts 2 and 3 of ISO/IEC 15504.[8]
Part 2 is the normative part and part 3 gives a guidance to fulfill the requirements in part 2.
The competency of assessors is the subject of part 3 of ISO/IEC 15504.
Process improvement is the subject of part 4 of ISO/IEC 15504.
ISO/IEC 15504 (Part 4) can also be used to inform supplier selection decisions.
Part 5 specifies software process assessment and part 6 specifies system process assessment.
The process assessment model (PAM) in part 5 is based on the process reference model (PRM) for software: ISO/IEC 12207.[12]
The process assessment model in part 6 is based on the process reference model for systems: ISO/IEC 15288.
The latest work in the ISO standards working group includes creation of a maturity model, which is planned to become ISO/IEC 15504 part 7
The International Standard (IS) version of ISO/IEC 15504 now comprises 6 parts. The 7th part is currently in an advanced Final Draft Standard form[3] and work has started on part 8.


Further reading
ISO/IEC 15504-1:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 1: Concepts and vocabulary
ISO/IEC 15504-2:2003 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 2: Performing an assessment
ISO/IEC 15504-2:2003/Cor 1:2004
ISO/IEC 15504-3:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 3: Guidance on performing an assessment
ISO/IEC 15504-4:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 4: Guidance on use for process improvement and process capability determination
ISO/IEC 15504-5:2012 Information technology — Process Assessment — Part 5: An exemplar Process Assessment Model
ISO/IEC TR 15504-6:2013 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 6: An exemplar system life cycle process assessment model
ISO/IEC TR 15504-7:2008 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 7: Assessment of organizational maturity
ISO/IEC PDTR 15504-8 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 8: An exemplar process assessment model for IT service management
ISO/IEC TS 15504-9:2011 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 9: Target process profiles
ISO/IEC TS 15504-10:2011 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 10: Safety extension

External links
Automotive SPICE - http://www.automotivespice.com/


Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_15504 - SPICE