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TranStrL: An automatic need-to-translate string locator for software internationalization

Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, Jiasu Sun

DOI 10.1109/icse.2009.5070554dblp

Abstract

Software internationalization is often necessary when distributing software applications to different regions around the world. In many cases, developers often do not internationalize a software application at the beginning of the development stage. To internationalize such an existing application, developers need to externalize some hard-coded constant strings to resource files, so that translators can easily translate the application to be in a local language without modifying its source code. Since not all the constant strings require externalization, locating those need-to-translate constant strings is a basic task that the developers must conduct. In this paper, we present TranStrL, an Eclipse plug-in tool that automatically locates need-to-translate constant strings in Java code. Our tool maintains a pre-collected list of API methods related to the Graphical User Interface (GUI), and then searches for need-to-translate strings in the source code starting from the invocations of these API methods using string-taint analysis.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wang-al:ICSE09,
  author    = {Xiaoyin Wang and
               Lu Zhang and
               Tao Xie and
               Hong Mei and
               Jiasu Sun},
  title     = {{TranStrL:} An automatic need-to-translate string locator for software internationalization},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {555--558},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year      = {2009},
}

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