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Comparison of interfaces between software components

US8707255B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH · DE

Inventors

Oliver Niggemann · Detmold, DE
Joachim Stroop · Bad Lippspringe, DE
Rainer Otterbach · Schlangen, DE
Herbert Hanselmann · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 23, 2006
Grant date	Apr 22, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 23, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/44536
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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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