Types of Globalization Testing
There are two types of globalization testing:
1. Localization testing: Localization testing is a process of modifying the software product according to each locale (language, code page, territory, etc.) that is to be supported. The objective here is to provide a product the look and feel for a target market irrespective of their culture, location, and the language. It is also known as L10N testing.
- It involves translation of the software and its presentation to the end-user.
- The translation considers icons, graphics, user manuals , documentation, etc.
2. Internationalization testing: Internationalization testing is the process of developing and planning the software which allows to localize the application for any given language, culture, or region without demanding any changes in the source code. It is also known as I18N testing.
- It checks whether the application is working uniformly around various global regions and cultures.
- The aim here is to verify if the code can deal with all the international support with no breaking of functionality.
- It focus on language compatibility testing which involves verifying if the product can behave correctly in a particular language environment.
- It involves UI validation where aim is to identify visual problems like graphical issues, text overlapping, etc.
- It involves installation testing which involves trying to install app in different native languages and check if the installation messages are displayed correctly in different languages.
- Internationalization testing involves interoperability testing that involves testing the software over targeted cross platforms, app versions, operating systems, etc.
Globalization Testing – Software Testing
Globalization Testing is a type of software testing that is performed to ensure the system or software application can function independently of the geographical and cultural environment. It ensures that the application can be used all over the world and accepts all language texts. Nowadays with the increase in various technologies, every software product is designed in such a way that it is a globalized software product.