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Testing for Global Customers
By Bj Rollison, Microsoft Corporation
  
Summary: More and more organizations are creating applications that are used around the globe. These applications must be customized for various national conventions including time, date, number, and currency formats. In addition, these applications must process data from non-English keyboards in languages such as Russian, Japanese, Hindi, and Arabic. Additional complications include string processing, sorting, and sequencing; character conversion; and bi-directional language support for Middle Eastern languages. Bj Rollison shows how an English-language Windows platform can be used to perform globalization testing without testers having knowledge of non-English languages. Bj shows how to select and use non-English character strings as test data. In addition, Bj provides examples of typical bugs found during globalization testing, methods to detect them, and techniques to generate automated tests using foreign character sets.
- Explore the basics of globalization testing
- Learn the value of early globalization testing
- Discover how to identify common globalization defects
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About the Author Bj Rollison joined Microsoft in 1994 working on the internationalization of the Windows operating system. In 1996 he became the international test manager for Internet Explorer and several related client products. He moved to the internal training group at Microsoft in 1999 as the Director of Test Training with responsibility for planning and organizing the training for the 6000 test engineers at Microsoft. Bj is now a Test Architect in the Engineering Excellence group where he designs and teaches intensive hands on training curriculum for test engineers at Microsoft.
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