Internationalization & Localization Testing Successfully Testing Multilingual Software And Web Sites

Do you want to create a multilingual testing capacity in your organization? Do you want to offer multilingual testing services to your customers? Do you want to globalize your existing monolingual test organization? Do you want to outsource language testing and get the most out of it?

This workshop teaches the fundamentals of internationalization and localization testing. Both management and technical aspects are covered in a practical, pragmatic manner. Numerous examples and actual samples of test plans, test cases and test strategies are provided.

This workshop will show you how to test in all target languages and on all target platforms in a cost effective manner. You will learn how to set up a testing organization along with associated workflow, planning and management structures. You will learn how to leverage industry best practices, methods, tools and techniques. You will learn what to test and how to test it. This knowledge will be ready-to-use the very next day!

Who will benefit from this workshop and why?

Who:	Interested in...
Executives	better understanding of localization costs leveraging internationalization testing efforts
Webmasters and Developers	learning how to implement internationalization and localization testing developing test procedures, scripts and checklists to identify and fix bugs early
Testing Managers	identifying key testing milestones and methods throughout the globalization process adding internationalization and localization testing to established workflows adapting existing test suites to apply to different locales with maximum leverage creating internationalization and localization test plans
Build Masters	learning importance of configuration management to localization project coordinating work with development, testing, internationalization and localization teams
International Directors	learning how your organization can participate in localization testing with regional staff understanding the resources required to complete a localization project
Localization Managers	ensuring localized software meets product goals and functions correctly in each locale delivering software that really works, find the bugs before shipping the code learning how to coordinate with testing and development teams
Program and Project Managers	learning how to adapt your workflow to develop multiple configurations for different locales ensuring testing is properly included in the development plans
Marketing and Product Managers	understanding impact and risks associated with localization requirements learning how to organize workflow for localization requirements and testing coordinating localization teams
Translation Agencies Translators	expanding your offering by providing testing services to your customers participating in testing as language experts learning what can go wrong and how to avoid it

About i18N workshops

At i18N Inc., we are committed to providing a high-quality learning experience. We design all of our workshops based on the following principles:

• visual & intuitive: tables, graphics, animation & video provide extreme clarity
• lots of content: rich, relevant content; our handouts can serve as reference
• abstract models: we consider the forest first, then the trees (then the bugs!)
• no sales pitch: our only sales pitch is the quality of our workshops

"Over the past ten years, LISA has provided numerous workshops on a variety of topics. Pierre has provided the highest quality Internationalization, and Web-Globalization workshops at our conferences and is the best rated workshop instructor we have" -- Michael Anobile, Director, LISA

SOURCE:http://www.i18n.ca/workshops/ILT_overview.htm