TREE NEWS update: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization Administration) approved and released a national standard, “Automotive Software Quality and Defect Management Specification.” The standard requires automakers, software suppliers and supply-chain organizations to build software quality and safety management systems and carry out 10 key quality assurance activities, including software safety management, historical issue avoidance and status reporting. It strengthens controls over AI software, embedded software and cloud software, aiming to move defect identification and prevention earlier in the process.
China Releases National Standard for Automotive Software Quality and Defect Management
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The significance lies in standardisation reaching automotive software quality, including AI, embedded and cloud layers, which are increasingly central to vehicle differentiation. It affects automakers, software suppliers and supply-chain organisations, which must now build management systems and adopt the ten named assurance activities. The open question is how such a national standard interacts with existing global automotive quality regimes and whether compliance becomes a market-access expectation.
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