Compare Suite was not designed with software engineers or testers in mind, but it appeared that most of the features that office users like, are recognized by software professionals as well. We had no option, but to add even more features that have made Compare Suite a good choice for any software development team.
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Each multimedia file (music, pictures, or video) contains some metadata:
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MS Word has an excellent built-in feature for changes tracking, but sometimes it is not enough to find out what modifications were made:
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A classical comparison is done by words. The file compare utility search for similar blocks in two files and presents the results by highlighting the differences. This works great for the similar documents. What about documents that have nothing in common? Compare software won’t be able to find similar blocks and will highlight too many changes that will be meaningless for the user.
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When comparing two documents one finds the differences and makes a conclusion. What if there are differences that are not significant for the comparison? For example:
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Imagine a typical situation. An employee sends to his supervising manager a new version of the document for the review. Fortunately, the manager has Compare Suite installed and the analysis of the modifications will be much easier:
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Compare Suite supports file archive formats seamlessly. Pass a .zip or .rar archive to Compare Suite and you will work with it as if it was a simple folder. This is a great time saver when you need to compare the current version of the file with the version from a backup archive.
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Command line interface in Windows is a great way to automate things. The comparison of files is not an exception. Of course we cannot automate all of the process of making the computer decide what changes are important and what are not, but what you can do is to make the process as easy as possible.
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We have recently published videos where RoutineBot does an automatic check of “BSC Designer” software:
What was left behind the scenes is Compare Suite, which was used to compare actual and expected results, and the batch files that were used to automate the scripts. We’ve gotten some questions asking to share the full testing technology used.
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There are many document compare tools that claim to be the fastest, the most accurate, and the easiest to use. Actually, the speed of comparison is never an issue unless you are designing a high performance system. As for accuracy, any software will highlight all the differences for you, the questions are if it is easy to:
That’s where the real difference between compare tools is.
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Compare documents to find differences regardless of the format: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PDF.
Compare two local or remote folders to find and synchronize any changes made.
Use the keywords comparison to analyze non-related documents created from different formats.
Archive comparison: compare Rar and Zip archive files without unpacking / unzipping.
Compare web pages as code with HTML tags or as text as seen in a web browser.
Compare two images of various formats to find all possible differences, even slight ones.
Multimedia comparison. Compare information from multimedia and graphic formats.
Ignore words. Compare Suite can ignore certain keywords or strings during comparison.
DMS Integration. Easily integrate Compare Suite into 3rd party document management systems.
Syntax highlighting for .pas, .asm., cpp, PHP, XML, bat, css, dpk, xsl files supported.
Compare files located on FTP as easily as on hard drives or local area networks.
Use command line to automate comparisons and integrate it with 3rd party tools.
UNICODE is fully supported: open and compare documents in any language or encoding.
Review compared documents:
Create a fully customizable comparison report on two files or folders.
Write your own comments on changes you or your colleagues make, improving collaboration.
Use document audit to accept or decline changes made in plain text files.
