Locating need-to-translate constant strings in web applications

Software internationalization aims to make software accessible and usable by users all over the world. For a Java application that does not consider internationalization at the beginning of its development stage, our previous work proposed an approach to locating need-to-translate constant strings in the Java code. However, when being applied on web applications, it can identify only constant strings that may go to the generated HTML texts, but cannot further distinguish constant strings visible at the browser side (needto-translate) from other constant strings (not need-to-translate). In this paper, to address significant challenges in internationalizing web applications, we propose a novel approach to locating need-totranslate constant strings in web applications. Among those constant strings that may go to the generated HTML texts, our approach further distinguishes strings visible at the browser side from non-visible strings via a novel technique called flag propagation. We evalua...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGSOFT
• Authors: Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, Jiasu Sun
• Keywords: Constant Strings, Generated Html Texts, SIGSOFT 2010, Software Engineering, Web Application