Globalization Testing in Software testing

Globalization Testing

Globalization is the term used to describe the process of producing software that can be run independent of its geographical and cultural environment. Localization is the term used to describe the process of customizing the globalized software for a specific environment. For simplicity, the term “globalization” will be used to describe both concepts, for in the broadest sense of the term, software is not truly globalized unless it is localized as well.

There are lot aspects that must be considered when producing globalized software. Some of the aspects are as follows:

• Sensitivity to the English vocabulary
• Date and time formatting
• Currency handling
• Paper sizes for printing
• Address and telephone number formatting

Advantages of Globalization Testing:

• It reduces overall testing and support costs
• It helps us to reduce time for testing which result faster time-to-market
• It is more flexible and product is easily scalable

What is Internationalization (I18N) Testing?

Internationalization testing is the process of verifying the application under test to work uniformly across multiple regions and cultures.

The main purpose of internationalization is to check if the code can handle all international support without breaking functionality that might cause data loss or data integrity issues. Globalization testing verifies if there is proper functionality of the product with any of the locale settings.

Internationalization Checklists:

• Testing to check if the product works across settings.
• Verifying the installation using various settings.
• Verify if the product works across language settings and currency settings

What is Localization (L10N) Testing?

Localization testing is performed to verify the quality of a product's localization for a particular target culture/locale and is executed only on the localized version of the product.

Localization Testing - Characteristics:

• Modules affected by localization, such as UI and content
• Modules specific to Culture/locale-specific, language-specific, and region-specific
• Critical Business Scenarios Testing
• Installation and upgrading tests run in the localized environment
• Plan application and hardware compatibility tests according to the product's target region.

Localization Testing - UI Testing:

• Check for linguistic errors and resource attributes
• Typographical errors
• Verify the systems adherence to the input, and display environment standards
• Usability testing of the User interface
• Verify cultural appropriateness of UI such as color, design, etc.

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