New Features and Changes in AutoFOCUS 2.23

Service Oriented Architectures

• Completely new modeling viewpoint for service oriented architecture (SOA) in expert mode

Variability

• Improved modeling support for variability in the component architecture
• New possibilities to model variability in state automata

fortissimo

• Completely new deployment functionality to support easy deployment of models to fortissimo rovers (see git.fortiss.org/ff1)

General

• Various improvements to stability and user interface

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 2.23:

• Support hiddenInNonExpertView also for whole editors (#4300)
• Transfer SOA basics/plugin into AF3 plugins for next release version (#4284)
• Refactor info window about external references during reuse into a window with a scrollbar (#4265)
• Safety Pattern Metamodel (#4242)
• Support hiddenInNonExpertView also for context menu contributions (#4305)
• Logical Architecture: Enable connections to be optional (#4282)
• Variability: Add variability to state automata (#4281)
• Variability: Presence Condition is unnecessarily updated, when property section is opened. (#4273)
• [FF1 Generator] Avoid hard-coding the rovers' hostnames (#4255)
• [FF1 Generator] Handle SSH authentication failures (#4253)
• [FF1 Generator] Enable optional startup (#4252)
• [FF1 Generator] Enable arbitrary allocations from tasks to execution units (#4251)
• [FF1 Generator] Display the deployment output in a window (#4250)
• Split ReuseLibraryUtils class into smaller utils classes (#4247)
• [FF1 Generator] Refactor and consoldiate the current feature set (#4231)
• [FMI] Redirect COE output / Hide COE output from the AF3 console (#4001)
• [Cosimulation] Complete re-implementation of the cosimulation logic required (#3926)
• 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)