The document discusses UI testing for multi-lingual applications. It covers testing the text and controls to ensure they accommodate longer translated strings, storing localizable strings in separate files, testing sorting, justification and directionality for different languages, checking for issues with images, printing for international paper sizes and fonts, and introduces pseudo-translation testing to find localization issues without a full translation.

1. UI Testing on MultiLingual - Ganesa Raman

3. UI Testing Discovers the problems found in the user interface due to language and localization changes Following slides describes more about UI testing

4. Contd… Text and Controls String lengths need room to grow Ex. When words or sentences are translated into other languages, most of the time the resulting string will be either shorter or longer than the native language. To illustrate the above lets have a look at the below screen shot.

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6. Contd… When the same string is translated to other language we can observe that the string has been cut off as shown below.

7. One more example

8. Contd… All strings must be stored in separate files Localizable string are strings that are no longer hard coded and compiled directly into the programs executable files. To overcome the above issues, strings has to be separated in the program apart from the code. The above can be achieved using a concept called string tables which will be stored in a different file. The structure of the file will be something like key-value pairs which the application will read the file and process the data.

9. Contd… Number of items (controls in dialogs, menus) Verifying for menu items Controls like combo box with in the dialog Sorting Should be based on OS settings Test in main data, dialogs, list boxes, etc. Conventions with case, diacritics

10. Contd… Justification & Directionality Text displayed and entered Ex. Left – to – right Right – to – left Top – to – bottom Bi-Directionality In a bidirectional language, the general flow of text proceeds horizontally from right to left, but numbers are written from left to right, the same way as they are written in English. In addition, if an English or another left-to-right language text (addresses, acronyms or quotations) is embedded, it is also written from left to right.

11. Images To check for text on splash screens, toolbar, buttons, and icons As the applications are tempted to use signs and symbols in there software as icon for toolbars, buttons, images for widgets and graphics to depict certain functionality. In such scenarios testing should take care of checking for graphics in the program that are specific to country and culture. Ex. Japan’s stop sign is an inversed triangle and their speed limit sign is circle.

12. Contd… Printing Test with foreign printers International paper sizes Different countries has different paper sized. For Ex. Most common used paper size in US is “letter” which is 8 ½” x 11” . In many other countries it is ISO size A4 which is slightly different dimension Directionality

13. Fonts When designing your multi-lingual website, it is important to realise that the font size you chose for your default language may not be suitable for all languages. Different languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Arabic might be difficult to read at font sizes that are suitable for English, French and German languages. For web pages displaying Chinese, Japanese or Arabic languages the default font size will need to be increased so the text is legible on screen. There are two ways this can be achieved. The first uses the CSS ‘lang’ pseudo class to set different font sizes and font families depending on the value of the ‘lang’ attribute

15. Simulation of a localized product

16. Why?

17. Uncover G11N issues using EN build.

18. Minimize the L10N effort involved.

19. Save crucial time at later stages.

20. How?

22. Pseudo Translation – In Action Pseudo Translate

23. Q & A