Towards incremental component compatibility testing
Ilchul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam Porter · 2011
Software components are increasingly assembled from other components. Each component may further depend on others, and each may have multiple active versions. The total number of configurations --- combinations of components and their versions --- deployed by end users can be very large. Component developers, therefore, spend considerable time and effort doing compatibility testing --- determining whether their components can be built correctly for all deployed configurations. In previous work we developed Rachet to support large-scale compatibility testing of components.