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Globalization Testing: Basic International Sufficiency

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I started my career at Microsoft in 1994 working on the Windows 95 International Test team. Globalization testing is a unique specialty in software testing just like performance, security, and other specific areas of testing. Globalization testing doesn’t necessarily require a tester to be bi-lingual, or be from a country other than the United States. [...]

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Globalization Testing: Customizing Time Formats

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Time is a commodity in short supply. I have been juggling a lot lately and there never seems to be enough time to do everything I need to do, and even less time to do the things I want to do. (Blogging falls under the want to do category.) I wish sometimes I could slow [...]

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Globalization Testing: Customizing the Date Format

Saturday, April 17, 2010

The ability of our software products to function correctly in a global environment is becoming more and more important. Our software should support national conventions used by the various locales around the globe. For example, in some regions of the world the period character is used as the number group separator and the comma is [...]

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Test Automation: Look Below the UI for More Effective and Robust UI Automated Test Case Designs

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Last month I wrote about simplistic views of UI test automation in which some people want to pretend that recording for playback or scripting hard-coded actions and data to mimic some human’s interactions at the keyboard is an automated test. Balderdash! Automating a set of sequences or preconceived steps simply [...]

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UTF What?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Monday, January 14, 2008
Years ago life was pretty simple with regard to data input. Most computer programs were limited to ASCII characters and a set of character glyphs mapped into the code points between 0×80 and 0xFF (high or extended ASCII) depending on the language. The set of characters was limited to [...]

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More on Generating Strings with Random Unicode Characters

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Sunday, December 24, 2006
Well, for those of you living outside the Pacific Northwest you are probably unaware of the recent wind storm with winds gusting to 60+ miles per hour that left more than 1 million people on the eastern side of the state without power. The damage was pretty extensive, and since [...]

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More on Globalization Testing and Random Unicode String Generation

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Sunday, November 12, 2006 3
After a week in Boston presenting at the 3rd Software Testing and Performance Conference I am relaxing in Baltimore (where I grew up) visiting family and friends. For the second year in a row I presented a workshop on functional and structural testing techniques, and also presented a double-track [...]

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StarWest 2006 Presentation – Testing for Global Customers

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Friday, November 03, 2006
I recently presented a talk on a globalization testing; a topic I think is really interesting, yet I find that most people try to ignore the topic for various reasons. I think that when people start talking about globalization or internationalization testing, some testers and developers shut down mentally. I [...]

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