Case study 01: Software localisation for mobile telephony client

Project type:

Software localisation.

Client sector:

Mobile telephony.

Project components:

UI strings for push-email application.

Timescale:

3.5 weeks.

Languages:

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian.

Deliverables:

14 localised and tested applications for UIQ, S60, S80 and Windows Mobile and J2ME devices.

Key steps in project workflow:

Create bi-lingual glossaries of terms for client approval and apply approved terms
Create parsing rules and encoding detection to extract translatable content from various resource formats
Translate UI strings in XML format, building translation memories simultaneously
Create test plans to cover several typical user scenarios
Perform linguistic testing of UIs in 14 languages on 5 leading mobile platforms, using remote test server
Record and report functional issues on intranet bug tracking system
Implement customised adaptations for certain platforms and markets
Localise and test patch updates to 14 languages, by leveraging against translation memories.

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"We didn't think it could be possible to get our product out to so many markets simultaneously within such an aggressive timeframe. More to the point, the localised applications have been very well received by the markets and are clearly of a very high standard in all respects. ITR did a great job!"