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Product: Software Application
Situation
ABC Software has developed and marketed a banking software package successfully in the U.S. for several years. They recently signed an agreement to sell the product in Latin America, so a localized version of the product release is needed right away. The product has been on the market for a while, so the product is a combination of legacy code and new modules that meet current customer needs. Content for translation is mostly isolated in resource files, though some content is still mixed with legacy code modules.
Project Scope
| User Interface: |
150 .rc files. Some content may come from legacy code (to be examined at the beginning of the project). Total word count is approximately 12,000 words. |
| Help File: |
35,000 words in HTML Help file format. |
| Documentation: |
Leveraged from Help files using RoboHelp 2002 (providing 100% leveraging from the Help files). |
| Timeline: |
Six weeks are available for initial localization, followed by two weeks of localized product testing. |
Process
ABC cannot confirm that the UI content is isolated in .rc files. We perform a 'pseudo translation' of the .rc files so that we can examine all the UI screens. This allows us to determine whether the UI content is limited to the .rc files or whether some content comes from legacy code. We insert machine-translated Spanish content into the UI, then ABC provides us a built version to test for areas that are yet not translated. Following our test, we provide ABC a list of areas that were not translated by the machine translation. ABC is now able to implement minor code changes in order to externalize that text into .rc files. This initial phase takes two weeks, which is then followed by our normal localization process. |
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