[Libreoffice-qa] Moztrap, some questions

[Sophie Gautier]

Hi Bjoern,
On 15/08/2012 13:00, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:44:07PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
>>>      2. translate the test case in wiki and give the link back to
>>> Moztrap
>>
>> I am afraid that it would be hard to maintain and too much clicking.
>
> Maybe we could add a link to the page itself on google translate? For
> understanding the testcase it should be good enough (if not we extend the
> original description, which helps the english and the localized community?)
>
> I fear manually translated testcases are doomed to fail as they will always be
> outdated/incomplete during the timeframe that matters. Using automatic
> translation (and tweaking the original so it comes out understandable) might
> work though. Automatic translation is by now mostly only a problem, if you dont
> control the source.

Imho, that won't work for two reasons:
- behavior is not the same in every language and testing may differ/be 
adapted depending on the local
- UI strings are not the same due to localization, and we are also QAing 
our l10n when we do those tests in our language

Kind regards
Sophie