Testing & QA Services

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Comprehensive testing and translation QA services

Acclaro provides comprehensive testing and quality assurance (QA) services for software and website localization projects.

Testing & QA pitfalls

During a full-scale globalization effort, the translation of an application often exposes product coding or presentation layer issues that require resolution. These can include broken functionality and cosmetic issues that can confuse or frustrate international users. It’s also common to have mistranslations due to the limited context a translator has while working with software string lists or resource files. Our expert teams identify and correct these functional, linguistic and cosmetic issues throughout the globalization cycle to ensure exceptionally smooth international product releases.

Testing & QA solutions

As with all of our solutions, Acclaro starts by assessing what you already have in place for product testing — plans, platforms, roadmaps, scripts and defect tracking systems, as well as your existing processes and experience. We then assemble a multi-disciplinary team, which can include linguists, engineers and QA testing specialists, to address the specific needs of your project. We offer a flexible approach that can include our resources onsite, onshore or offshore.

An overview of our testing services:

• Software and web application testing services:
  • Internationalization testing is executed before translation begins with the goal of exposing language independent functional issues that can be corrected once in the English source, rather than in each additional language.
  • Localization testing occurs after translation is completed to verify the localized product against the source product checking for cosmetic and functional issues specific to each language.
  • Linguistic testing involves in-market linguists reviewing the translation within the context of the running application, local operating system and browser. This is a critical step for ensuring the quality of any translated application, as out-of-context phrases, formatting limitations and development practices can generate issues identified at this stage.
• Website testing services: Although website testing often includes many of the same testing services found in software and web application testing, it often requires more specific testing to verify compliance with certain browsers and to ensure that hyperlink navigation remains intact. In addition, the process can require a more culturally sensitive eye as it often involves greater use of visual elements that might not relate cross-culturally.
• Customized solutions: Our resources address desktop software and websites as well as firmware, embedded systems and mobile device testing based on your specific requirements. Acclaro provides solutions ranging from fully outsourced turnkey solutions to staffing resources working onsite with your existing in-house staff.

Visit Our Work to learn more about the products we have tested, as well as our other localization services. Then contact us, or request a quote to get started.

Ensuring the quality of your multilingual products. We get it.