• It is a type of non-functional testing.
• Compatibility testing is a type of software testing used to ensure compatibility of the system/application/website built with various other objects such as other web browsers, hardware platforms, users (in case if it’s very specific type of requirement, such as a user who speaks and can read only a particular language), operating systems etc. This type of testing helps find out how well a system performs in a particular environment that includes hardware, network, operating system and other software etc.
• It is basically the testing of the application or the product built with the computing environment.
• It tests whether the application or the software product built is compatible with the hardware, operating system, database or other system software or not.

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