MultiByte Testing!!!!!! hmm What it is? Do we need to do this for all kind of products? Why should we do this?
Hey We all say proudly that we work for a MNC. Haa MNC, a Multi National Company. If any of our friends or relatives ask us we say, we have our company in Netherlands, China, Germany, UK, US etc..(the list goes on).
But did we ever think on how your product works on a Chinese environment or a German Environment ?
Yup that's what we do as part of Multibyte testing. We test our software compatibility with respect to other languages.
You might get a doubt on what i mean by Chinese environment and German Environment etc..
let me explain with an exmaple.
Microsofts Windows OS is very popularly known OS and is used almost world wide.
As English is the common language used world wide we generally see the machines in English.
But one of my chinese customer want my software to be seen in Chinese charecter support as shown in the image. For a typical business software, it may even extend to even the Chinese DataBase server also, where as chinese charecters might be considered as some special charecters in normal DB server (English).
This kind of testing is done in this typical kind of environments where your business software is installed in that respective environment, it might be either chinese or german or french etc..
and the functionality of the software remains unchanged.
