AUTO-TRANSLATION OF SOURCE STRINGS IN GLOBAL VERIFICATION TESTING IN A FUNCTIONAL TESTING TOOL

• US 20110074574A1
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: McClamroch, Kenneth L., Sun, Peter, Raghavan, VinodKumar, Becker, Jennifer G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,258,947 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application graphical user interface (GUI). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application GUI can include loading a target GUI for an application under test in a functional testing tool executing in memory by a processor of a computing system, retrieving different translated source strings in a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of the target GUI and, determining a score for each one of the translated source strings. Thereafter, an alert can be provided in the functional testing tool for each translated source string corresponding to a determined score failing to meet a threshold value, such as a score that falls below a threshold value, or a score that exceeds a threshold value.

Claims

1. A method for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

loading a target GUI for an application under test in a functional testing tool executing in memory by a processor of a computing system;

retrieving different translated source strings in a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of the target GUI;

determining a score for each one of the translated source strings; and

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providing an alert in the functional testing tool for each translated source string corresponding to a determined score failing to meet a threshold value.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating source strings in a source spoken language into a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of a source GUI for the application under test using multiple different dictionaries;

scoring each translated one of the source strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule; and

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storing each score in a match table in connection with a corresponding source string and a target spoken language.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining a score for each one of the translated source strings, comprises mapping each one of the translated source strings to a score in the match table.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein scoring each translated one of the source strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from an organizational dictionary, a lower value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from an industrial dictionary, and an even lower value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from a general dictionary.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein scoring each translated one of the string strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings properly conforming to a grammar for the target spoken language.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein scoring each translated one of the string strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from one dictionary having a translation similar to another translation for the translated one of the source strings resulting from another dictionary.

7. A translation validation data processing system configured for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application graphical user interface (GUI), the system comprising:

a computing system with processor and memory;

a functional testing tool executing in the memory by the processor of the computing system;

a scoring module coupled to the functional testing tool and configured to score translated source strings for corresponding control elements of a target GUI for an application under test by the functional testing tool, according to at least one scoring rule; and

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a validation engine coupled to the scoring module, the validation engine comprising program code enabled to validate only translated sources strings for corresponding control elements in the target GUI having a score failing to meet a threshold value.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a translator coupled to the functional testing tool and configured for coupling to a plurality of dictionaries for translation of source strings over a computer communications network.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the dictionaries comprise an organizational dictionary, an industrial dictionary and a general dictionary.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the scoring rules comprises a rule scoring a translation of a source string at a higher value when translated according to the organizational dictionary, a lower value when translated according to the industrial dictionary, and an even lower value when translated according to the general dictionary.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the scoring rules comprises a rule scoring a translation of a source string at a higher value when translated similarly according to at least two of the dictionaries.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the scoring rules comprises a rule scoring a translation of a source string at a higher value when translated into a grammatical form consistent with grammatical rules for the target spoken language, and at a lower value when translated into a grammatical form inconsistent with grammatical rules for the target spoken language.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for translation verification of source strings for controls in a target application graphical user interface (GUI), the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for loading a target GUI for an application under test in a functional testing tool executing in memory by a processor of a computing system;

computer usable program code for retrieving different translated source strings in a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of the target GUI;

computer usable program code for determining a score for each one of the translated source strings; and

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computer usable program code for providing an alert in the functional testing tool for each translated source string corresponding to a determined score failing to meet a threshold value.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

computer usable program code for translating source strings in a source spoken language into a target spoken language for respectively different control elements of a source GUI for the application under test using multiple different dictionaries;

scoring each translated one of the source strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule; and

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storing each score in a match table in connection with a corresponding source string and a target spoken language.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer usable program code for determining a score for each one of the translated source strings, comprises computer usable program code for mapping each one of the translated source strings to a score in the match table.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the source strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from an organizational dictionary, a lower value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from an industrial dictionary, and an even lower value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from a general dictionary.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the string strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings properly conforming to a grammar for the target spoken language.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the string strings for goodness of translation based upon at least one scoring rule, comprises:

computer usable program code for scoring each translated one of the source strings with a higher value in response to a translated one of the source strings resulting from one dictionary having a translation similar to another translation for the translated one of the source strings resulting from another dictionary.