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• Why is globalization testing needed?
• What is, and what is not, adequate globalization testing?
• Why is simply repeating tests in different locales not good enough?
• When should globalization testing be done?
• How does one determine what is needed for adequate testing?
• What teams in the organization are best positioned to do globalization testing?
• How do teams find out how to test and what test data to use?
• What tools are useful in globalization testing?
• What organizational structures and techniques are efficient?

Questions and answers on Globalization Testing

• What is translatability testing?
• Why is it so important?

• Who should generate the pseudo translation?
• Who should perform the testing?
• What to include in a pseudo translation
• How much expansion should there be?
• Types of translatability problems that can be found through pseudo translation testing.

Questions and answers on Pseudo Translation

Now that you have a pseudo translation of your software - what should the test team do?
Switching to the pseudo translation

• Looking for language switching failures
• Looking for installation failures

Testing pseudo translated screens

• Looking for hard coded resources
• Looking for text corruption
• Looking for layout and truncation problems
• Looking for concatenation problems
• Looking for functional breakage
• Looking for incorrect audience designations

Ignoring strings from library code

Pseudo Translation and Bidi

Questions and answers on Pseudo Translation testing

Practice identifying translatability defects