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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For compatibility testing of blood, see <a href="Cross-matching" title="Cross-matching">cross-matching</a>.</div>
<p><b>Compatibility testing</b> is a part of <a href="Non-functional_testing" title="Non-functional testing">non-functional testing</a> conducted on <a href="Application_software" title="Application software">application software</a> to ensure the application's <a href="Computer_compatibility" title="Computer compatibility">compatibility</a> with different computing environment.<sup id="cite_ref-istqb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-istqb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-swtesthelp_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swtesthelp-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The ISO 25010 standard,<sup id="cite_ref-iso25010_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iso25010-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (System and Software Quality Models) defines compatibility as 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 coexistence and interoperability exhibited in the system under test.
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<ul><li><a href="List_of_International_Organization_for_Standardization_standards%2C_24000-25999" class="mw-redirect" title="List of International Organization for Standardization standards, 24000-25999">List of International Organization for Standardization standards, 24000-25999</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO/IEC_25010" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO/IEC 25010">ISO/IEC 25010</a>:2011 Systems and software engineering - Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) - System and software quality models</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Acceptance_testing" title="Acceptance testing">Acceptance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="System_integration_testing" title="System integration testing">System integration testing</a></li>
<li><a href="System_testing" title="System testing">System testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Integration_testing" title="Integration testing">Integration testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Unit_testing" title="Unit testing">Unit testing</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Test types,<br>techniques,<br><a href="Software_testing_tactics" title="Software testing tactics">tactics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="A/B_testing" title="A/B testing">A/B testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Benchmark_(computing)" title="Benchmark (computing)">Benchmark</a></li>
<li><a href="Concolic_testing" title="Concolic testing">Concolic testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_testing" title="Concurrent testing">Concurrent testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Conformance_testing" title="Conformance testing">Conformance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_testing" title="Continuous testing">Continuous testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Destructive_testing" title="Destructive testing">Destructive testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Development_testing" title="Development testing">Development testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_testing" title="Differential testing">Differential testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_program_analysis" title="Dynamic program analysis">Dynamic program analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Installation_testing" title="Installation testing">Installation testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Negative_testing" title="Negative testing">Negative testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_testing" title="Random testing">Random testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Regression_testing" title="Regression testing">Regression testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_testing" title="Security testing">Security testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Smoke_testing_(software)" title="Smoke testing (software)">Smoke testing (software)</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_performance_testing" title="Software performance testing">Software performance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Stress_testing_(software)" title="Stress testing (software)">Stress testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_execution" title="Symbolic execution">Symbolic execution</a></li>
<li><a href="Test_automation" title="Test automation">Test automation</a></li>
<li><a href="Usability_testing" title="Usability testing">Usability testing</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">[x]-box<br>style</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Black-box_testing" title="Black-box testing">Black-box testing</a>
<ul><li><a href="All-pairs_testing" title="All-pairs testing">All-pairs testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Exploratory_testing" title="Exploratory testing">Exploratory testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Fuzz_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Fuzz testing">Fuzz testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Model-based_testing" title="Model-based testing">Model-based testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Scenario_testing" title="Scenario testing">Scenario testing</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Grey-box_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Grey-box testing">Grey-box testing</a></li>
<li><a href="White-box_testing" title="White-box testing">White-box testing</a>
<ul><li><a href="API_testing" title="API testing">API testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Mutation_testing" title="Mutation testing">Mutation testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Static_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Static testing">Static testing</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Graphical_user_interface_testing" title="Graphical user interface testing">Graphical user interface testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Manual_testing" title="Manual testing">Manual testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Orthogonal_array_testing" title="Orthogonal array testing">Orthogonal array testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Pair_testing" title="Pair testing">Pair testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Soak_testing" title="Soak testing">Soak testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_reliability_testing" title="Software reliability testing">Software reliability testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Stress_testing" title="Stress testing">Stress testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_testing" title="Web testing">Web testing</a></li></ul>
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