1) Identical: Objects that appear in both object repository files. There is no difference in

their name or in their properties.

2) Matching description, different name: Objects that appear in both object repository

files that have different names, but the same description properties and values.

3) Similar description: Objects that appear in both object repository files that have

similar, but not identical, description properties and values. One of the objects always has a

subset of the properties set of the other object. This implies that it is likely to be a less

detailed description of the same object. For example, an object named Button_1 in the

second object repository has the same description properties and values as an object

named Button_1 in the first object repository, but also has additional properties and values.

Objects that do not have a description, such as Page or Browser objects, are compared by

name only. If the same object is contained in both the object repositories but with different

names, they will be shown in the object repositories as two separate objects.

4) Unique to first file, or Unique to second file. Objects that appear in only one of the object

repository files.