With increasingly connected vehicles, modern driver assistance functions, and the ongoing challenges surrounding highly and fully automated driving, automotive software today is more central than ever. In addition to the steadily growing functional complexity, ever stricter requirements for reliability, functional safety, IT security, and data protection must be met.

Intuitive, multimodal human-machine interaction through speech, gestures, or personalized interfaces is also gaining in importance. The trend toward comprehensive networking and digitalization in vehicles continues: value-added services such as social media, streaming, or office applications are increasingly being systematically integrated and can be used safely and context-sensitively even while driving.

The 23rd Workshop on Automotive Software Engineering is dedicated to the challenges of software development in the automotive sector and addresses suitable methods, techniques, and tools. Current challenges and solution approaches in automotive software engineering will be discussed. A particular focus is on the use of agile methods in regulated environments. Contributions from all areas of software development for modern vehicles are explicitly welcome.

With increasingly connected vehicles, modern driver assistance functions, and the ongoing challenges surrounding highly and fully automated driving, automotive software today is more central than ever. In addition to the steadily growing functional complexity, ever stricter requirements for reliability, functional safety, IT security, and data protection must be met.

Intuitive, multimodal human-machine interaction through speech, gestures, or personalized interfaces is also gaining in importance. The trend toward comprehensive networking and digitalization in vehicles continues: value-added services such as social media, streaming, or office applications are increasingly being systematically integrated and can be used safely and context-sensitively even while driving.

The 23^rd Workshop on Automotive Software Engineering is dedicated to the challenges of software development in the automotive sector and addresses suitable methods, techniques, and tools. Current challenges and solution approaches in automotive software engineering will be discussed. A particular focus is on the use of agile methods in regulated environments. Contributions from all areas of software development for modern vehicles are explicitly welcome.