AutoFOCUS 3

AutoFOCUS 3

AutoFOCUS 3 - Release Notes

New Features and Changes in AutoFOCUS 2.22

Architecture and Design Space Exploration

  • Several improvement to the functionality to specify exploration inputs in the DSE perspective in order to improve the usability and efficiency for the user.
  • New RAM utilization pattern to enable new use cases for the architecture exploration.
  • Several improvements for the visualization of exploration results all over the tool.

Variability

  • Various improvements to the Feature-Model editor such as simplified eidting support for comments and improved user support.

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Infrastructure

  • Various improvements for the fortiss tooling kernel that improve robustness and flexibility.

 

 

FAQ - Installation and Running

  • On MacOS
    • You need to accept unknown developer certificates.
    • You need to move AutoFOCUS3 to your application folder.
    • If you get an error message on startup which says that AutoFOCUS3 is broken and cannot be started: open a terminal and use the following command:
      • sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/AutoFOCUS3.app
      • As our software is a scientific prototype, our product is not signed which causes a problem due to the security restrictions of MacOS
  • On Windows: DSE does not execute and throws exception
    • If you encounter the following exception when running a DSE you might be missing required libraries:
      java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: [...]\plugins\com.microsoft.z3_2.20.[...]\lib\x64\msvcp120.dll: Can't find dependent libraries
      Installing the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 fixes the problem.
  • AF3 does not start
    • Check, that the path to your AF3 (including the AF3 folder itself) does not contain spaces.
    • If the product does not start because the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) could not be created: Please update your Java installation to Java 11.0.7
  • Unpacking of AF3 zip file fails with 'Path too long' on Windows
    • Workaround: Unzip into your drive root, e.g., C:/ and give the folder a short name like 'af3'
  • Menu icons are not displayed on KDE
    • Go to "System settings - Application Style - GNOME Application Style".
    • Select "Show symbols of GTK buttons".
    • Select "Show symbols in GTK menus".

 

Detailed list of changes in 2.22:

  • FeatureModel: Rename features in String representation of PresecneConditions (#4271)
  • DSE timeout: specify in seconds and increase default value (#4267)
  • Improvements to DynamicTreeTableViewer (#4254)
  • Add comment column to FeatureModelEditor (#4249)
  • [FF1] Import the fortissimo generator plug-ins (#4245)
  • Variability: FeatureModel is not loaded on tool start (#4239)
  • Fix maven-releng Docker image (#4238)
  • DSE solution table view: Enable sorting of columns (#4237)
  • Disambiguate names of (task) input ports generated for SOA architectures (#4235)
  • Prevent editing of constraint/objective names (#4234)
  • Apply autolayouter to architectures synthesized by DSE (#4232)
  • RAM Utilization Pattern (#4038)
  • Platform: At the tile level, the elements of the upper level are shown (#3982)
  • DSE: Wrong solution is exported from table visualization after sorting (#4274)
  • Enable deleting DSE configurations from model navigator (#4266)
  • [FMU Export] Sampling Time: Consider the case where no data dictionary has been created (#4263)
  • Concurrent Modification Exception when opening large model (#4111)
  • Memory Utilization Pattern erroneously uses task RAM instead of Flash requirements (#4037)