INFORMATICA International Journal Main Page Editorial Board Abstracting/Indexing Instructions to Authors Subscription Information Contents Author Index Papers in Production		INFORMATICA, 2006, Vol. 17, No. 1, 3-12 © Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, ISSN 0868-4952 Quantitative Evaluation of the Process of Open Source Software Localization Valentina DAGIENE, Gintautas GRIGAS Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Akademijos 4, 08663 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: dagiene@ktl.mii.lt, grigas@ktl.mii.lt Abstract Localization is a complex process based on translation and adaptation of software features. Usually localization progress is identified with the number of translated resource strings. The paper investigates the dependency of number of translated strings to amount of human resources used. It is shown that the number of translated strings increases much slower at the end of the work than at beginning. The last strings are especially difficult to translate. Quantitative evaluation of dependency between number of strings in progress and human resources is presented. Keywords: open source, localization, resource string, translation, process of evaluation To preview Lithuanian abstract see full article text To preview full article text in PDF format click here You could obtain free Acrobat Reader from Adobe
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