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2026 State of Automotive Software Development Report
- Chapter 1 - Top Market Challenges
- Chapter 2 - Leading Concerns
- Chapter 3 - Development Areas
- Chapter 4 - Shift-Left Adoption
- Chapter 5 - Recalls and Vulnerabilities
- Chapter 6 - Automotive Software Security
- Chapter 7 - Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs)
- Chapter 8 - Automotive AI Trends
- Chapter 9 - Standards Compliance
- Chapter 10 - Key Coding Standards
- Chapter 11 - How Teams Manage Their Work
- Chapter 12 - Software Dev Tools
- Chapter 13 - Open-Source Software
- Chapter 14 - Essential Perforce Solutions
- About the Survey — Appendix
Report > 2026 State of Automotive Software Development Report
Chapter 2 - Leading Concerns
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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