Kiro Helps FAW Qiming Achieve Agile Development and Workforce Restructuring

As the auto industry moves faster toward intelligence and connectivity, building software-defined vehicles has been an industrial consensus. The trend opens up broader prospects for automotive digital service providers represented by FAW Qiming. Their role is no longer limited to providing management and operation tools; instead, they should leverage intelligent means to tap into the massive data across the entire value chain from R&D and production to supply, sales and use, achieving the strategic upgrade toward intelligent data services. Meanwhile, FAW Qiming is expanding footprints worldwide in tandem with Chinese auto makers, implementing digital systems across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. This raises the bar for its R&D agility, O&M efficiency, and global compliance and collaboration.

To seize the opportunities of the times and support global expansion, FAW Qiming has defined the following directions for the upgrade:

• Establishing an efficient and quality end-to-end software delivery system: There is an urgent need to break through the efficiency bottlenecks resulted from the traditional sequential development model in IoV business and achieve fast adaptation of cross-version development. Moreover, it’s imperative to enhance automation and coverage of complex in-vehicle software unit tests, build a seamless collaboration process from requirement submission to code delivery, and minimize communication cost and rework through standardization and automation in product R&D, testing, and O&M, etc.
• Building an agile and resilience talent pipeline: It’s necessary to explore an innovative mode of empowerment within the established organizational framework, to unlock the potential of versatile talents, such as O&M engineers, enabling them to seamlessly transit into development roles in the face of urgent development tasks, and thus building an agile organization highly responsive to business changes.
• Bolstering the cornerstone for global intelligent O&M and compliance: It’s essential to build an intelligent O&M system with minute-level fault repair capabilities for overseas IoV services, while ensuring services deployed worldwide can automatically comply with local stringent data compliance requirements.

Based on the forward-looking planning for R&D paradigms, organizational capabilities, and global operational excellence, FAW Qiming chose to partner with AWS. AWS’ cutting-edge AI toolchains, including Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI, combined with global infrastructure and compliance systems, serve as a strong technological engine and a reliable cloud foundation for FAW Qiming in its digital and intelligent transition and globalization journey.

 

“AWS’ auto team has strategic foresight and rich experience in how to empower R&D, production, supply, sales and services of vehicles, the five core parts of the auto industry, with generative AI. It not only guides us to introduce frontier models, but also offers timely and precise support that enables us to deeply integrate technology with business scenarios and find the best path for AI empowerment across multiple stages. Through the collaboration, we gain a deeper understanding of AWS’ technological depth, ecosystem integrity, and industrial insight, among other core strengths, in terms of generative AI. Such comprehensive technical support and strategic synergy bolster our confidence in new technology, and provides a strong underpinning for our digital transition and global strategy.”

——Li Jinye, General Manager, FAW Qiming Tianjin

To address systematic upgrade, FAW Qiming didn’t pursue isolated optimizations, but integrated code development, unit testing, requirement management and APP O&M with AWS Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI at the core, establishing a pathway to higher efficiency marked by AI empowerment and human-machine synergy.

Code Adaptation: Kiro IDE Unleashes the Potential of “Full-Stack Developers” and Activates Talent Pool

In the iteration of IoV APPs, cross-version development used to be a major efficiency bottleneck: after the Android version was finalized, the iOS version had to be built anew by either an outsourcing team or another internal team, and the process would take as long as a month and involve high communication costs. Kiro IDE has completely changed the situation, allowing developers who are even not proficient in target system language to get high-quality and compliant iOS code framework simply by inputting clear business logic. This shortens the cross-version adaptation cycle to less than a week, boosting efficiency severalfold.

More innovatively, Kiro IDE functions as an “activator” for the company’s internal talent pool. In the face of an urgent internal management system development task, eight O&M engineers, who had deep business expertise but little coding practice, successfully translated their deep understanding of business into executable code instructions with the help of Kiro IDE, an intelligent coding partner. Instead of going through a lengthy language relearning process, they focused on logic validation and debugging. Finally, they not only delivered the product on time, but achieved individual ability breakthroughs and flexible shifts between team roles. This has forged an “agile team” highly responsive to changes for the company.

Unit Testing: Kiro CLI Boosts In-Vehicle Testing Efficiency and Guarantees Software Quality

To address the pain point that in-vehicle software is too complex to be fully covered by manual testing, FAW Qiming used Kiro CLI to revolutionize the unit testing process. By intelligently analyzing code logic and automatically generating testing cases for complex scenarios, such as multi-device interaction in IoV and abnormal network interruption, Kiro CLI improves the coverage of testing. More importantly, the tool can be seamlessly integrated with the development process, automatically optimizing testing cases while codes are updated and ensuring the synchronization between testing and development. Incorporated into the CI/CD process, testing is automated with one-click execution and report generation features. This transforms quality feedback from a “post-hoc validation” step into real-time guardrails throughout the development process, substantially shortening the time to detect and fix defects.

Requirements Output: Kiro IDE Drives Efficient In-Vehicle R&D Collaboration Through Requirement Standardization

To enhance cross-team collaboration, FAW Qiming has built a standardized requirement collaboration hub based on Kiro IDE. The tool can quickly translate vague and fragmented business inputs from multiple sources into well-structured user requirements with clear acceptance standards, reducing the risk of rework caused by misunderstandings from the outset. With its built-in version management mechanism, any changes to requirements can be automatically synchronized to all relevant teams in real time, ensuring information consistency. In addition, Kiro IDE can also store requirement templates for different scenarios such as IoV and vehicle control. When developing new functions, teams can quickly decompose requirements based on these templates, improving the efficiency and accuracy of requirement analysis, effectively controlling changes arising from development, and thus keeping projects on the right track.

APP O&M: Kiro CLI Empowers Automation of Fault Identification and Repair

In the global O&M scenario, fast identification and repair of faults are crucial. FAW Qiming embeds Kiro CLI into its daily O&M system. When anomalies occur in the IoV APP system deployed on AWS’ global infrastructure, O&M engineers no longer need to sift through logs manually. Instead, by issuing natural language commands through Kiro CLI, they can invoke and integrate multi-source system logs, monitoring metrics, and error codes. AI can quickly analyze the data, directly pinpoint root causes, and provide concrete repair suggestions or even executable command scripts based on historical cases and best practices. This dramatically cuts the mean time to repair (MTTR) for critical businesses.

In high-risk operations such as version release and rollback, Kiro CLI can clearly correlate code submission records with O&M incidents, providing reliable data to inform decisions and reducing O&M risks substantially. This not only speeds up O&M response, but also frees O&M engineers from repetitive troubleshooting work, allowing them to focus instead on the long-term optimization and stability of system architectures.

 

 

With AWS Kiro CLI and Kiro IDE, FAW Qiming has not only achieved efficiency gains in in-vehicle system R&D and IoV service O&M, but also reduced labor costs and refined business processes, providing a strong boost for the enhancement of automotive digital services.

• Significant improvements in R&D efficiency and organizational flexibility: Kiro IDE helped shorten the cross-version development cycle for IoV APP from one month to one week, while empowering eight O&M engineers to be backup developers, creating a flexibly scalable talent pool for the company, and enhancing the company’s agility in emergency response. FAW Qiming is also seeking to encapsulate the general-purpose tools and components used in IoV development into Kiro Power, to help the team quickly invoke mature technology stacks and further enhance efficiency.
• Intelligent upgrade of testing quality and O&M response: Kiro CLI powers intelligent generation and execution of unit tests, increasing test code coverage from 90% to 98%, and substantially cutting down the time to identify vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, the team is using property-based testing to further automate tests in complex scenarios. On the O&M side, fault identification and preliminary analyze are now automated, with the MTTR for overseas systems dropping from hours to minutes, securing uninterrupted service delivery.
• Systematic optimization in comprehensive costs and processes: For IoV APP development projects, reducing iOS development outsourcing leads to a 10% reduction in costs. More importantly, automated processes and standardized collaboration eliminate considerable hidden communication and rework costs, boosting overall operating efficiency.
• Robust growth of innovation culture and technological confidence: Generative AI tools, functioning as a bridge, reshape the model of teamwork, making technological innovation and agile business response part of the team’s daily routine.

The successful transformation wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the AWS team. At the early stage of cooperation, AWS organized a hackathon event themed “Gen-Dev AI Day”. The exciting competition helped FAW Qiming’s tech team gain a deeper understanding of the productivity of AI, and inspired their enthusiasm for application. During the implementation process, AWS offered case-by-case guidance for complex scenarios like the migration of old technology stacks, which was key to advancing the projects and unlocking their values.

Going forward, FAW Qiming will maintain partnership with AWS, to deepen the use of AI in overseas IoV data operation and compliance analysis, and explore AI-assisted development for new projects starting from requirement design, continuously leading digital innovation in the auto industry.

“Given the characteristics of the auto industry, including massive codebases, diverse development languages, and complex and changing business logics, as well as the tough demands for high concurrency and high availability in scenarios like IoV and autonomous driving, we compared a variety of tools used in the industry. Kiro exhibited outstanding adaptability and practical values. With Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI, we have not only removed the efficiency bottleneck, but activated our talent pool, forging an ‘agile team’ highly responsive to changes. The organizational vitality and technical agility driven by generative AI are among the most surprising outcomes of this partnership.”

——Li Jinye, General Manager, FAW Qiming Tianjin