Compatibility is the capability of the software product to interact with one or more specified components or systems.
Compatibility is a characteristic or degree to which a software system can exchange information with other systems whilst sharing the same software and hardware. The degree to which a product can perform its required functions efficiently while sharing a common environment and resources with other products, without detrimental impact on any other product is known as co-existence while interoperability is the degree to which two or more systems, products or components can exchange information and use the information that has been exchanged. In these contexts, compatibility testing would be information gathering about a product or software system to determine the extent of co-existance and interoperability exhibited in the system under test.
Environments may contain the below mentioned elements:
- Hardware Platform: IBM, HP, etc
- Bandwidth capacity of networking hardware
- Peripherals: Printer, external hard drive, etc
- Operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, etc
- Database: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, etc
- System Software: Web server, networking/messaging tool, etc
- Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc
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