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Localization Testing Part IV

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Thursday, November 12, 2009
The past series of posts have focused on one of localization testing which describes the largest category of localization class issues reported by testers performing localization testing, and what we categorize as usability/behavioral type issues because they adversely impact the usability of the software or how end users interact with [...]

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Localization Testing Part III

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Part 1 provided an overview of localization class issues, and Part II discussed issues with non-translated strings in a localized product and gave some helpful hints to manage that problem during the software development lifecycle. In Part III I will cover various issues with access key mnemonics. An access key [...]

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Localization Testing – Part II

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Friday, October 30, 2009
I should be of no surprise to anyone that localization testing generally focuses on changes in the user interface, although as mentioned in the previous post these are not the only changes necessary to adapt a product to a specific target market. But, the most common category of localization [...]

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Localization Testing: Part 1

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, October 27, 2009
When I first joined Microsoft 15 years ago I was on the Windows 95 International team. Our team was responsible for reducing the delta between the release of the English version and the Japanese version to 90 days, and I am very proud to say that we achieved that goal [...]

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