Testing Challenges in Indic Languages

Agenda

Introduction To Testing Challenges In Indic Languages Testing Challenges in the Enablement Phase Decoding Enablement Challenges Using Linguistic Rules Testing Challenges in the Integration Phase Solutions Takeaways Copyright ÂŠ by QA InfoTech. All rights reserved.

Introduction To Testing Challenges in Indic Languages

Example: Violation of Localization Industry Standards

Market Impact

3 Ts of Localization Industry

Example:

Testing Challenges in the Enablement Phase

All Syllables/Clustered Conjuncts

Syllables

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Testing Challenges in the Integration Phase

Keyboard

Fonts

Text Engine

Indic Testing Challenges with Example

Hindi

Kannada

Solutions

Knowledge of Localization Industry Standards (3Ts) Knowledge of Localization Industry Standards (3Ts)

Bug fixing solution triage: Linguists & developers co-ordination Three eyes view process Early involvement of linguists at design phase

Takeaways

Due to the Digital India campaign, Indic languages have a huge potential and market value With the growing demand of Indic support, understanding and implementation of Indic testing will become very important Not just language, cultural and domain specific knowledge is also a must

References

• Logo Courtesy FICCI-Indian Language Internet Alliance (FICCI-ILIA) • http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2013/09/07/india-speaks-780-langua ges-220-lost-in-last-50-years-survey/ • https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/devanagari/i ntro.htm • https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/indic/summar y.html

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