<s>
Pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
(	O
or	O
pseudo-localization	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
a	O
software	O
testing	O
method	O
used	O
for	O
testing	O
internationalization	B-General_Concept
aspects	O
of	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Traditionally	O
,	O
localization	B-General_Concept
of	I-General_Concept
software	I-General_Concept
is	O
independent	O
of	O
the	O
software	O
development	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Application	O
code	O
that	O
assumes	O
all	O
characters	O
fit	O
into	O
a	O
limited	O
character	O
set	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
or	O
ANSI	O
,	O
which	O
can	O
produce	O
actual	O
logic	O
bugs	O
if	O
left	O
uncaught	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
element	O
names	O
in	O
an	O
XML	B-Protocol
or	O
HTML	B-Language
document	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
Pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
is	O
designed	O
to	O
catch	O
these	O
types	O
of	O
bugs	O
during	O
the	O
development	O
cycle	O
,	O
by	O
mechanically	O
replacing	O
all	O
localizable	O
elements	O
with	O
a	O
pseudo-language	O
that	O
is	O
readable	O
by	O
speakers	O
of	O
the	O
source	O
language	O
,	O
but	O
which	O
contains	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
troublesome	O
elements	O
of	O
other	O
languages	O
and	O
scripts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
why	O
pseudolocalisation	B-General_Concept
is	O
to	O
be	O
considered	O
an	O
engineering	O
or	O
internationalization	B-General_Concept
tool	O
more	O
than	O
a	O
localization	O
one	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
technique	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
at	O
Microsoft	O
since	O
the	O
late	O
90s	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
made	O
available	O
to	O
developers	O
as	O
a	O
feature	O
during	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
Vista	I-Application
development	O
cycle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prior	O
to	O
Vista	B-Application
,	O
each	O
of	O
these	O
three	O
language	O
classes	O
had	O
their	O
own	O
separate	O
builds	O
of	O
Windows	O
,	O
with	O
potentially	O
different	O
code	O
bases	O
(	O
and	O
thus	O
,	O
different	O
behaviors	O
and	O
bugs	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
key	O
features	O
of	O
the	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
process	O
is	O
that	O
it	O
happens	O
automatically	O
,	O
during	O
the	O
development	O
cycle	O
,	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
routine	O
build	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
builds	O
that	O
are	O
produced	O
by	O
the	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
process	O
are	O
tested	O
using	O
the	O
same	O
QA	O
cycle	O
as	O
a	O
non-localized	O
build	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Besides	O
the	O
tools	O
used	O
internally	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
other	O
internationalization	B-General_Concept
tools	O
now	O
include	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
options	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
tools	O
include	O
Alchemy	O
Catalyst	O
from	O
Alchemy	O
Software	O
Development	O
,	O
SDL	O
Passolo	O
from	O
SDL	O
and	O
Globalyst	O
from	O
g11n	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
tools	O
include	O
pseudo-localization	B-General_Concept
capability	O
,	O
including	O
ability	O
to	O
view	O
rendered	O
Pseudo-localized	O
dialogs	O
and	O
automating	O
the	O
testing	O
process	O
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
tools	O
like	O
Globalyst	O
complete	O
the	O
whole	O
process	O
of	O
creating	O
pseudolocalised	O
build	O
and	O
automate	O
the	O
testing	O
,	O
it	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
done	O
by	O
running	O
a	O
custom	O
made	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
script	O
on	O
the	O
extracted	O
text	O
resources	O
and	O
manually	O
testing	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
free	O
pseudolocalization	B-General_Concept
resources	O
on	O
the	O
Internet	O
that	O
will	O
create	O
pseudolocalized	O
versions	O
of	O
common	O
localization	O
formats	O
like	O
iOS	O
strings	O
,	O
Android	O
xml	B-Protocol
,	O
Gettext	O
po	O
,	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
