Configuration management and automated test system ASIC design software

An apparatus for facilitating the operational reliability of a library of modules indicative of a set of interdependent software tools that cooperate with one another to enable a logic system designer to interconnect a plurality of integrated circuits for achieving a high level of functional integration therebetween, comprising:

• autodetector means for automatically detecting a module submission to the library of modules;
• autoverifier means for determining whether said module submission has a previously submitted archived module within the library of modules;
• modification identification means responsive to said verification means for comparing and identifying functionality changes between said module submission and said previously submitted archived module;
• module selection means responsive to said modification identification means for assembling an exclusive set of previously submitted archived modules with interdependence on said module submission;
• function identification means responsive to said module selection means for sequentially identifying individual functions in each individual previously submitted archived module in said exclusive set interdependent upon the identified functionality changes between said module submission and said previously submitted archived module;
• module testing means responsive to said function identification means for testing sequentially each identified function to verify its proper functional operation relative to each identified functional change between said module submission and said previously submitted archived module:
• and
• error reporting means responsive to said module testing means for generating a failure report that identifies each function that failed to perform its proper functional operation due to each individual one of the identified functional changes between said module submission and said previously submitted archived module.