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

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 hardcoded 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 needto-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-totranslate 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-totranslate strings in the source code starting from the invocations of thes...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, Jiasu Sun
• Keywords: ICSE 2009, Software Engineering