New Features and Changes in AutoFOCUS 2.26

Architecture Viewpoints for Industrial Automation

• Dedicated architecture viewpoints for industrial automation available in expert mode
• Modeling support for plant topology
• Modeling support for product structure

Model Consistency

• Integration of a novel consistency checking functionality (CCCC) in expert mode
• Enables automated check for consistency with arbitrary external models via consistency adapters
• Build-in check for consistency of system cost between requirements and technical architecture

Variability

• Extended product-line analysis to state automata with variability
• Presence Conditions are automatically checked for correctness
• Improved editor behavior and automated checks to ensure unique names of features

Model Metrics and Quality

• New button to extract metrics via EGit
• Improved metrics extraction from Git repositories

SysML-Export

• Usability improvements via more robust UI and new warnings in case of unintended usage
• Improved encoding of atomic data types

Component Architecture

• Editor enables to connect connections more easy by automatically creating missing ports on sub-components

FAQ - Installation and Running

• 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 2.26:

• SysML: Avoid NPE when exporting logical architecture only (#4418)
• SysML Export: Ask before overwriting output files (#4417)
• SysML Exporter: Renaming of methods and classes to reflect their purpose (#4392)
• MQS: Locate git repository w/o assumptions on directory layout (#4390)
• SysML-Export: Display warning, if no views have been selected (or select all views automatically) (#4373)
• EGit Metrik Extractor for an AF3 git repository (#4371)
• Extend the central viewtype collection of the CCCC with all needed elements from the AF3 metamodel (#4364)
• Improve code quality of AF3 consistency adapter (#4363)
• SysML Exporter: encoding of atomic data types (#4355)
• Variability: Add Product-Line-Analysis to state automata (#4311)
• Variability: Add checker for incorrect presence conditions (#4401)
• Integrate Consistency Checker and AF3 Consistency Adapter into AF3 (#4362)
• Feature Model: Assign a unique name for newly created features (#4313)
• Component Architecture: Create connections without existing ports (#4304)
• [CCCC] Fix NPE when no possible AF3 element class/type can be found for a requested consistency element inside AF3 C-Adapter (#4430)/li>
• Reuse: PresenceConditions are not removed when adding StateAutomata to a Reuse Libarary (#4427)/li>
• [Manufacturing] Integrate Manufacturing Plugin: Topology and Product Viewpoints (#4425)/li>
• Fix "Failed to load icon" in some AF3 plugins (#4431)/li>