Abstract: A system and method are provided for a translation data exchange system. In an embodiment, the translation data exchange system receives a release notification from a development environment. The release notification may indicate that one or more source files have been (or are in the process of being) released to a development repository. The translation data exchange system may identify one or more released source files having a single interchange data format. In an embodiment, the identified source files are automatically extracted from the development environment. Each extracted source file may include text to be translated by a translation system.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing tools for development of backwards compatible software are disclosed. A subset of software objects of a first software subsystem is identified and declared frozen. A changed introduced into a frozen software object is detected and prior to allowance of the change, the change is analyzed to determine whether the change is compatible with a second software subsystem.