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Scope of Automation For Globalization Testing

By

Bhaskar Mittapalli

Yateesh Kumar Shukla

Introduction 2

Challenges in Testing Globalized Applications 3

Guidelines for Globalization Testing 4

Leveraging Automation 5

Comparative study 7

Agenda

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Comparative study 7

Benefits of this approach 9

Conclusion 10

Introduction

• What is Globalization?

Globalization is the process of making the software application ready to the end users where it supports multiple languages and culture specific settings without sacrificing any of the functionality and core logic.


• Need for Globalization

• Reach out to the global customers by providing language specific interfaces

• To support region specific requirements (due to legal, financial practice)

• To improve the effectiveness of a globally distributed business

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Challenges in testing globalized applications

Challenges of

testing global

Language specialists

are required to test

translated content

Tests should be performed across different locales


testing global applications

More effort required to

author test scenarios

for various locale specific scenarios

Tests should include validations for the

display of date

formats, currency masks etc. and is time

consuming

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Guidelines for Globalization Testing

� Develop a comprehensive test plan

� Identify areas where locale awareness is required

� Use varied combination of inputs

� Provide time for pseudo-localization


� Provide time for pseudo-localization

� Perform extensive GUI testing for high priority test cases

� Leverage automation for checking translated content and business rules specific to different locales

Identify the automation scenarios

Check availability of locale specific data

Identify the locales under test

Our Approach: Leveraging Automation


Identify the locales under test

Prepare the navigation flow

Run the test for specific locale

Our Approach: Leveraging Automation

CHECK LOCALE SPECIFIC DATA


AUTOMATIONTOOL

RUN SCRIPT FOR SPECIFIC LOCALE

READ USER LOCALECHANGE THE LOCALE

60

80

100

120

120

Total Hours:

Without

Automation: 360 min

With Automation: 285 min

Comparing Test Case Authoring EffortsROI


0

20

40

60

30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30

15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15

Without Automation

With Automation

Microsoft Office

Excel 97-2003 Worksheet

Automation Scripting Efforts

Comparing Test Case Execution EffortsROI

10

12

14

16

18

20

20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Without Automation

Total Hours:

Without

Automation: 240 min

With Automation: 120 min


Microsoft Office

Excel 97-2003 Worksheet

Automation Execution Efforts

0

2

4

6

8

10 Without Automation

With Automation

Time savings in test authoring efforts for different translated versions of the application.

Test execution time is saved when the automated scripts are run on different locales and languages.

Benefits


different locales and languages.

Language specialists are needed to a lesser extent for the testing of the applications.

Exhaustive language specific UI testing is easier.

By using the above genericautomation framework, validationscan be done for the static text as wellas some of the key business rules ofthe application.

This approach would be suitable forapplications which have more

Conclusion


applications which have morenumerical data and static textchanging over locales. Example:Banking Applications.

We strongly believe that the strategiesidentified will save time and thus moretime could be spent on other prioritytasks and thus provide better qualityassurance.

Questions?Questions?

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