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Robert Badawy

Suriya Narayanan

Nitinkumar Shah

Tomasz Kaminski

Ian Beck

Satish Joseph Thomas

George Strajan

Syed Hamid

Liang Yu

Jakob Steen Hansen

Shailesh Nikam

Andrew William Jewsbury

Khalid Aggag

Devin Leslie Carraway

Zhaoqi Chen

Annaji Sharma Ganti

Ajay Kumar Jha

Suresh Kumar Reddy Kotapalle

A computing system comprises, in one example, an upgrade system configured to detect a user upgrade input indicating that a base version of a computing system is to be upgraded, by applying a set of upgrade changes to the base version, to obtain an upgraded version of the computing system, a difference generation system configured to retrieve a customized version of the base version of the computing system and identify that the customized version corresponds to the base version with customizations applied, a combining engine configured to obtain the customizations applied to the base version and the upgrade changes, and combine the customizations with the upgrade changes to obtain a full set of changes, and a difference application engine configured to apply the full set of changes to the base version of the computing system to obtain a customized, upgraded version of the computing system.

Model driven customization framework

A user interaction is detected which indicates that the user wishes to build and test a customized computing system. A build system is automatically generated to build models in the customized system. Test code is automatically generated and included as part of source code for the build. When a build is triggered, the build is generated and automatically tested. Build and test execution results are surfaced for user visualization.

Integration and automation of build and test in a customized computing system

A development system comprises, in one example, a customization component configured to detect user development inputs to develop elements of a computing system, the elements comprising types modeled in the computing system, a display system configured to generate user interface displays, and a visualization system configured to identify a set of customized elements, a set of non-customized elements, and a customization type for each of the customized elements. The visualization system comprises a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate an integrated view user interface display that visually distinguishes the set of customized elements from the set of non-customized elements and indicates the customization types for the customized elements.

Visualization framework for customizable types in a development environment

An integrated view is generated for a model element being customized. The integrated view shows an integrated visualization of the model element in the base system as well as a plurality of different extensions to the model element. The integrated view also facilitates editing of an extension document that represents a customization currently being made.

Integrated visualization for modeled customizations

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