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This chapter is the story of a product line engineering effort under way at General Motors. The product line involves the electronic control systems placed aboard vehicles during manufacturing.
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Our thanks to everyone at General Motors who is involved in making their adoption of 2GPLE a success, and especially those who have been involved through the roll-out effort. Their contributions have made this case study, and the story it tells, possible.
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Flores, R., Krueger, C., Clements, P. (2013). Second-Generation Product Line Engineering: A Case Study at General Motors. In: Capilla, R., Bosch, J., Kang, KC. (eds) Systems and Software Variability Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36583-6_15
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