Sunday, September 30, 2012

What is I18N and L10N

International Testing is also called as I18N because there are 18 characters between I and N in Internationalization.

International testing make sure that GUI and Functionality of the application will not be broken with translated text. I18N more related to the design. There should not be any hardcoded format of element like date, currency etc.

Localization Testing is also called as L10N because there are 10 characters between L and N in Localization. We say localization when we develop particular apps or web for only specific region then it called L10N.

In Localization testing we test the apps,web for particular language, it incorporate cultural information such as time ,date, currency etc.L10N is more related to the text and actual data.

International and Localization testing make sure that product is ready for global market .Each testing serve different purpose.

Related Document:
How to test multilingual website?

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