GLOBALISATION TESTING EXPLAINED

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International Input Types

As the name implies, input types also need to be internationalized for your application. Globalization testing checks proper functionality of the product, using every type of international input possible. It ensures that code can handle and interpret all input types without affecting the functionality of product.

You might have experienced while downloading a particular software, the company wants you to sign up by quickly filling up a form. When it comes to enter mobile number, you get confused about the format. How should I enter the number? There can be several options like:

• + 92 300 3224675
• 0300 3224675
• 03003224675
• 0300 32 246 75
  
  

It is best that you display required format and example for input fields in a balloon pop up, so that the user knows the correct input format.

International input types testing becomes vital if your application or website has forms that need user input. You need to put special testing emphasis on the address, telephone number, zip code fields.

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Localization Testing
The concept of ‘Localization Testing’ is equally important to understand because it is a part of globalisation testing. You can move to globalisation testing, once your application has passed localization tests successfully.
As the name implies, localization testing is performed to check the functionality of the software product for people of a specific location, language and culture i.e. your immediate or local client. The output is a ‘Localized Product’.
For a localized product, you can not say how the product will be accepted by people of a different geographical region.

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Recap

Globalised software product has become the demand of market. To deliver a quality globalised software product, globalisation testing is performed. The main target of globalisation testing is to verify that the software product is good to use in different regions of the world, for people belonging to different cultures and speaking different languages. Keeping these differences in mind, we put emphasis on the various internationalization aspects of the globalised product such as language, time , date format, currency and input types.

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Source: http://reqtest.com/testing-blog/globalisation-testing/

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Author:Ulf Eriksson

Ulf is the founder of ReQtest and as the Product Owner, decides what features are added to the product, and makes sure that ReQtest is of a consistently high quality. Ulf has written several books and courses as well as a library of articles on the subjects of testing and requirements management, as well as speaking publicly on a number of subjects related to the world of testing.