Wednesday, September 12, 2012

How to test multilingual website?


In Globalization apart from English in other languages also the website get developed and which is really good for customer, user who can access the site in their own language and it good for boarder global reach. Now the question is  how to test of Multilingual website?


  • Start from basic preparation, which includes all necessary text translated.



  • In linguistic testing check language problem like typos error, terminology that inappropriate in a specific content.




  • Find which character encoding use, and that you can find in your browser.

            Mozilla:Go to View >>Character Encoding
            Internet Explore: Go to View >>Encoding
            Chrome: Click on wrench icon on the browser toolbar>>Select Setting>>Click on show advance     setting>>there you find language setting.


  • Different spoken languages have had different character encodings associated with them. For Eg: Japanese content may have been encoded with SHIFT_JIS; Simplified Chinese with GB2312 etc. These language specific encodings are sometimes referred to as "native" encodings. 


        Generally UTF-8 supports nearly every spoken language and it also very well supported by all modern    browser.


  • Check HTML code is declared for specific language,for page is written .You can easily checked by viewing page source. For Eg: for Chinese page: <html lang="zh-CN">



  • In functional testing check the site functionality is proper in that language; Check the link navigation, error message. Check URL Format.



  • In user-interface check typo error, check for incorrect character, graphic, Check the color, Check text direction every culture has their own specific way to read for eg: Western cultures read left to right, middle east cultures read right to left ,pacific cultures read top to bottom. Check Format of currency, measure etc. Check length of the word different language take up different amount of space on the language.



  • To do usability testing from user point of you.


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