Sunday, April 19, 2009

QA functionality in XBench 2.7

XBench 2.7 (build 0.183)

Supported checks. This tool officially does not support Unicode, and this is probably the main drawback of the application that eventually resulted in a rather high error level. For this reason, it does not support checking Arabic, Chinese, Farsi as well as Czech and Polish TTX files.
It does not have punctuation checks enabled by default; however, they are easy to enable via XBench rules which may significantly improve its error reporting in real life.
False positives. XBench reported corrupt characters for all non-Latin and non-Cyrillic characters.
Multilingual project support. Like many other QA tools, this one finds inconsistencies between translations into different languages and reports terminology errors in untranslated segments.
Conclusion. This tool is very new to the market, but probably on of the most promising ones to date. Its extensive file format support, additional functionality and extension capabilities together with the fact that the tool is currently free allow to suppose many companies, particularly small ones, may want to select it as their QA solution.

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