Comments on: 7 basic tips for testing multi-lingual web sites

By: nitin paighowal

nitin paighowal — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:36:57 +0000

hey we are the last year students of computer engineering branch…we r doing project on -”improving testing techniques and reliability for web based applications “…do let us know how to work on it..and where to start…..pls help

By: Sartaj

Sartaj — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:38:28 +0000

Hi,
I have been testing Dutch and french sites since quite some time. I have few suggestions for the same.

If site search is incorporated in the multilingual site then try searching for a key word and click on the URL returned by the search. It would take us to that particular page. Now try changing the language and see if the system handles this.

Also, as the language change is stored in cookies, turn off cookies and then try changing the language and see if the system handles this by giving some proper error message or just crashes.

By: KP

KP — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:33:27 +0000

Good one to Read

By: ravi

ravi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:11:05 +0000

thq…. for the article vijay its very useful

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:21:34 +0000

worth reading

By: Rohini

Rohini — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:05 +0000

Hi Inder,

Thanks for posting this article. Its very good & helpful. As i am working on 7 Multilingual website this tips is very help full. Site includes, English , Deutsch , Nederlands , Français , Português , Italiano , Español.

By: Thareesh

Thareesh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:16:28 +0000

Thanks for the useful doc and I have a question .we are testing a Ukraine website where user will submit the form and data will get saved in DB.We are using toad and it wont accept ukranian charecters,so it will get saved in some other format (EX:¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) So its very diffficult to identify whether correct value is getting updated in correct column or not.Can any one help me out?How we can made it easy to test?

By: Jayesh Katariya

Jayesh Katariya — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:27:47 +0000

Cross browser compatibility can be added to this option, I have seen the issue with one of the IE version when testing Chinese locale, also same was not observed with other IE

Thanks and Regards,
Jayesh Katariya

By: Harshal

Harshal — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:23:53 +0000

To set the encoding for all pages, add a Globalization property to the Web.config file.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:12:15 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the article it was helpful. I’m testing an application which is deployed in 15+ cultures. Though the through test is done by the people from the specific cultures I would like to simplify this task by automating most (at least the basic things like labels, etc.) items to be tested. Any suggestions on how I can go about doing this?