METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING TRANSLATION IN RESOURCE FILE

• US 20080195377A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Matsushita, Kazunori, Kato, Naotaka
• Application Number:
  US11/962,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20080195377A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for allowing users to easily know changes in PII character strings in a context at the time of execution of software. One aspect is a method for translation verification including the acts of: creating four text files, each corresponding to old and new versions in a first language and a second language, from a set of old and new versions of PII files in the first language and old and new versions of PII files in the second language; creating an intermediate file, which uses a key name contained in the new version of text file in the first language and a file name as retrieval keys, from the four text files; and creating a PII file for translation verification in the second language with reference to the intermediate file, is provided. Furthermore, a method, for displaying a translated character string on a GUI screen on the basis of a change attribute ID, including an act of attaching, to the intermediate file, a change attribute ID representing a type of change in the text files obtained by comparing old and new versions of text files in the first language and the second language, is provided.

Claims

1. A method for verifying a character string translated from a first language into a second language in a resource file of verification target multilingual software using a tool program for verification, the method comprising:

the tool program creating four text files, each corresponding to old and new versions in the first language and in the second language, from a set of old and new versions of PII (program integrated information) files in the first language and old and new versions of PII files in the second language resulting from version upgrade of the verification target software;

the tool program extracting a character string to be translated, a key name serving as an identifier of the character string, a directory name and a file name of the PII file in the first language that contains the character string from each of the four text files;

the tool program creating an intermediate file containing a plurality of records in which the extracted key name, the directory name, and the file name are attached to the character string as retrieval keys; and

the tool program creating a PII file for translation verification in the second language from each record in the intermediate file.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

the tool program comparing old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys;

the tool program extracting the new version of the character string in the second language as a character string for displaying if the old and new versions of the character strings in the first language are the same and the old and new versions of the character strings in the second language are the same; and

the tool program extracting the new version of the character string in the first language and the new version of the character string in the second language as the character strings for displaying otherwise.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

the tool program comparing old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys; and

the tool program attaching a change attribute ID, representing a type of change in the character strings obtained based on the comparison result, to each record of the intermediate file.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

displaying the character string for displaying on a graphical user interface (GUI) screen displayed by the verification target software at the time of execution.

5. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

displaying the change attribute ID and the compared character strings on a graphical user interface (GUI) screen displayed by the verification target software at the time of execution.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, at the act of displaying, a user of the tool program is prompted to specify the change attribute ID to be displayed.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein, at the act of displaying, both the character string in the first language and the character string in the second language are displayed on the graphical user interface (GUI) screen if the change attribute ID indicates that each of the new and old versions of character strings in the first language and the second language are compared and there is a change in at least one of those character strings.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein the change attribute ID is classified on the basis of cases that each of the old version of PII files in the first language and in the second language is “

available” and

“

not available”

, and cases that each of the new version of PII files in the first language and the second language is “

available and the same”

, “

available and updated”

, “

available and created”

, “

not available and the same”

, and “

not available and vanished”

.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein a separator is used in the records of the intermediate file to separately identify the key name, the directory name, the file name, and the character string.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the separator is “

=”

.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the record is constituted by a line of text.

12. A computer program product for allowing a computer to execute a method for verifying a character string translated from a first language into a second language in a resource file of verification target multilingual software using a tool program for verification, the method comprising:

causing the computer to create four text files, each corresponding to old and new versions in the first language and in the second language, from a set of old and new versions of PII files in the first language and old and new versions of PII files in the second language resulting from version upgrade of the verification target software;

causing the computer to extract a character string to be translated, a key name serving as an identifier of the character string, a directory name and a file name of the PII file in the first language that contains the character string from each of the four text files;

causing the computer to create an intermediate file containing a plurality of records in which the extracted key name, the directory name, and the file name are attached to the character string as retrieval keys; and

causing the computer to create a PII file for translation verification in the second language from each record in the intermediate file.

13. The computer program product according to claim 12, the method further comprising:

causing the computer to compare old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys; and

causing the computer to extract the new version of the character string in the second language as a character string for displaying if the old and new versions of the character strings in the first language are the same and the old and new versions of the character strings in the second language are the same; and

causing the computer to extract the new version of the character string in the first language and the new version of the character string in the second language as the character strings for displaying otherwise.

14. The computer program product according to claim 12, the method further comprising:

causing the computer to compare old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys; and

causing the computer to attach a change attribute ID, representing a type of change in the character strings obtained based on the comparison result, to each record of the intermediate file.

15. A device for verifying a character string translated from a first language into a second language in a resource file of verification target multilingual software, the device comprising:

a control unit; and

a PII file input unit for receiving, as input, a set of old and new versions of PII files in the first language and old and new versions of PII files in the second language resulting from version upgrade of the verification target software, wherein

wherein the control unit is operable to;

create four text files, each corresponding to old and new versions in the first language and in the second language, from the set of the old and new versions of PII files in the first language and the old and new versions of PII files in the second language, input from the PII file input unit,

extract a character string to be translated, a key name serving as an identifier of the character string, a directory name and a file name of the PII file in the first language that contains the character string from each of the four text files,

create an intermediate file containing a plurality of records in which the extracted key name, the directory name, and the file name are attached to the character string as retrieval keys, and

create a PII file for translation verification in the second language from each record in the intermediate file.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the control unit further is further operable to:

compare old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys, and

extract the new version of the character string in the second language as a character string for displaying if the old and new versions of the character strings in the first language are the same and the old and new versions of the character strings in the second language are the same, and

extract the new version of the character string in the first language and the new version of the character string in the second language as the character strings for displaying otherwise.

17. The device according to claim 15, wherein the control unit is further operable to:

compare old and new versions of character strings in the first language and old and new versions of character strings in the second language included in each record of the intermediate file with reference to the retrieval keys, and

attach a change attribute ID, representing a type of change in the character strings obtained based on the comparison result, to each record of the intermediate file.

18. The device according to claim 16, further comprising:

a display unit for displaying the character string for displaying on a graphical user interface (GUI) screen displayed by the verification target software at the time of execution.

19. The device according to claim 17, further comprising:

a display unit for displaying the change attribute ID and the compared character strings on a graphical user interface (GUI) screen displayed by the verification target software at the time of execution.