What it means for software to be compatible
interacts with and shares information correctly with other software
Management Market
Examples of compatible software are 舉個栗子
• Cutting text from a Web page and pasting it into a document opened in your word
processor 從網頁上剪切文本並將其粘貼到在文字處理器中打開的文檔中
• Saving accounting data from one spreadsheet program and then loading it into a completely different spreadsheet program 從一個電子表格程序保存會計數據，然後將其加載到完全不同的電子表格程序中
• Having photograph touchup software work correctly on different versions of the same operating system 使照片修飾軟件可以在同一操作系統的不同版本上正常工作
• Having your word processor load in the names and addresses from your contact management program and print out personalized invitations and envelopes 將文字處理器加載到聯繫人管理程序的名稱和地址中，並打印出個性化的邀請和信封
• Upgrading to a new database program and having all your existing databases load in and work just as they did with the old program 升級到新的數據庫程序，並像使用舊程序一樣加載和運行所有現有數據庫
Platform and Application Version
Selecting the target platform or the compatible applications is really a program management or a marketing task. They will also identify the version or versions that the software need s to be compatible with.
1. Backward and Forward Compatibility.
Backward/Forward Compatibility: If something is backward/forward compatible, it will work with previous/future versions of the software.
2. The Impact of Testing Multiple Versions.
We can not test all the thousands of software programs on your operation system, so we need to decide which ones are the most important to test. The key word is important.
high level standards and low level standards
low level are more important – detail
Data sharing compatibility
Here are a few examples:
• File save and file load
• File export and file import
• Cut, copy, and paste
實現方法
crowdsourcing 衆包