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2026 State of Automotive Software Development Report
- Chapter 1 - What Are the Top Market Challenges Impacting Automotive Software Development?
- Chapter 2 - The Leading Concerns in Automotive Software and Technology Development
- Chapter 3 - Areas of Automotive Software Development
- Chapter 4 - Adoption & Implementation of Shift-Left
- Chapter 5 - Recalls and Software Vulnerabilities
- Chapter 6 - Automotive Software Security
- Chapter 7 - How Are Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) Affecting Developers?
- Chapter 8 - Leading Trends in Automotive AI
- Chapter 9 - Why Standards Compliance Remains Vital for Automotive Development
- Chapter 10 - Key Coding Standards for Automotive Software Development
- Chapter 11 - How Development Teams Manage Their Work
- Chapter 12 - Which Software Tools Development Teams Are Using
- Chapter 13 - Open-Source Automotive Software
- Chapter 14 - Why Perforce Software Solutions Remain Essential for Automotive Software Development
- About the Survey — Appendix
Report > 2026 State of Automotive Software Development Report
Chapter 2 - The Leading Concerns in Automotive Software and Technology Development
We Identified Five Key Areas of Concern in Automotive Software Development
Based on the results, quality continues to lead as the top concern at 27%, which has been the trend for the past three years. Safety still leads somewhat over security, but both safety and security prove to be consistently important to automotive professionals as AI technologies and standards for mitigating risk continue to evolve.
This year, team productivity concerns rose by 3%, while testing concerns remained the same.
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