GLOBALISATION AND LOCALIZATION TESTING

LOCALIZATION TESTING:


Testing of an application designed for a specific locality. For eg: MS office in Tamil, malayalam etc.


GLOBALISATION TESTING:


Testing to check how well the application works across the globe.
Why do we need to go for globalisation testing? The color, time zone depends on each country. So we need to test for language, color, timezone, daylight savings, currency. For eg: you can host a website in US with currency as rupees. Consider an ATM centre in UAE with languages in English and Hindi. So globalisation testing has its own importance. In gulf countries, most of the websites would be of green color as of regional sentiments. Even though all these factors do not have much impact on the application, they all contribute to one factor called USER SATISFACTION.


Hope all have got a good idea on localization and globalization testing.