Localization Quality Assurance - Screenshot Comparison Method

Nilamdyuti Goswami ngoswami at redhat.com
Fri Feb 15 07:48:20 UTC 2013


On 15-02-2013 11:22 পূৰ্ব্বাহ্ন, Ankit Patel wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 07:19 PM, Nilamdyuti Goswami wrote:
>> For this testing purpose  Deckard (A web based glade runner) can be of
> > some help. Manoj Giri earlier tried testing with Deckard after
> > Dogtail got deprecated. I came to know about Deckard only after Runa
> > gave a demo presentation about Deckard at Wikimedia language summit.
> > Deckard will be really helpful for the above purpose as it
> > dynamically displays the UI of the selected module in desired
> > language. Moreover, the displayed UI can be used as a real UI which
> > is better than a screenshot. The only shortcoming is that at one time
> > only language can be selected i.e, there is no provision for
> > selecting both source and target language. I wrote a mail to
> > Deckard's developer requesting this feature change in reply to which
> > he suggested me a simple workaround which can the serve the above
> > purpose. An addon named split-panel needs to added to Firefox and two
> > panel of the same page opens up in the browser window allowing us to
> > display the UIs side by side in both English and native language.
> > However, this instance of Deckard has only Gnome modules at present
> > and there is no provision to add other projects to it. The developer
> > says for other projects like LibreOffice, a separate instance of
> > Deckard has to be created. Moreover, only the latest gnome modules
> > are available for testing. There is no provision for selecting the
> > older gnome versions. All these feature changes can be done and will
> > take some time but for now I feel using the panel splitting method
> > the testing purpose can be served.
>
> Hi Nilamdyuti,
>
> Thanks for taking an effort to discuss with deckard developer
> 1) to get support 'Source' and 'Target' display together next to each 
> other on the same page
> 2) to get support of localization testing of any older Gnome releases
> 3) to cover most of the open source projects' localization testing 
> (not just Gnome)
Welcome.
>
> Irrespective of all of the above features get implemented, we would 
> still require a system to capture localization assessment with respect 
> to Screenshot Comparison Method or localization quality review.
Yes, that would be needed as well.
> Happy to see the movement around localization!
>
> Thank You!
> Ankit Patel
> http://www.ankit644.com/
Thanks Ankit!

Regards,
Nilamdyuti
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