Comparison of Interfaces Between Software Components
First Claim
1. A method to test compatibility between two software components of a network of control devices, with each software component being allocated to at least one technical interface description, having a certain description standard, comprising:
- providing each description standard with a hierarchic position in a hereditary hierarchy of all potential description standards,determining, based on the hereditary hierarchy the closest common description standard in the hereditary hierarchy in reference to the software components to be compared, andbased on the common description standard, determining and comparing the common portions of the respective interface descriptions to each other.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for testing the compatibility between two software components of a control device network, a technical interface description being assigned to each software component, this interface description having a specified description standard, and each description standard having a hierarchical position in an hereditary hierarchy of all possible description standards. The common description standard, which is nearest in the hereditary hierarchy, of the software components to be compared is determined based on the hereditary hierarchy, and the common portion of the respective interface descriptions is determined based on the common description standard of the common portion of the respective interface descriptions and compared with one another.
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10 Claims
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1. A method to test compatibility between two software components of a network of control devices, with each software component being allocated to at least one technical interface description, having a certain description standard, comprising:
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providing each description standard with a hierarchic position in a hereditary hierarchy of all potential description standards, determining, based on the hereditary hierarchy the closest common description standard in the hereditary hierarchy in reference to the software components to be compared, and based on the common description standard, determining and comparing the common portions of the respective interface descriptions to each other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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