TranStrL: An automatic need-to-translate string locator for software internationalization
TranStrL: An automatic need-to-translate string locator for software internationalization
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TranStrL:用于软件国际化的自动需要翻译字符串定位器
DOI:
10.1109/icse.2009.5070554
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2009
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Jiasu Sun
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作者:
Xiaoyin Wang;Lu Zhang;Tao Xie;Hong Mei;Jiasu Sun
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 hard-coded 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 need-to-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-to-translate 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-to-translate strings in the source code starting from the invocations of these API methods using string-taint analysis.