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The trend toward globalisation of products and services
has brought a strong economic imperative to the development
of general methods for the localisation of software
to different cultural environments. While ad hoc, bolt-on
localisation may satisfy immediate commercial objectives,
its extension to multiple locales is not cost-effective and
an integrated strategy is needed. In this more sustainable
approach, known as software internationalisation, the requirements
of disparate markets are addressed during analysis
and system design, with the architecture developed so
that localisation to a particular environment is straightforward,
and involves minimal re-engineering.
Given the limited size of the Australasian market, detailed
attention to the technical issues of internationalisation
is of critical importance to the future of software development
in the region, as is the availability of graduates
adequately prepared for this environment. Thus motivated,
this paper examines the state of play in a number of aspects
of application level software internationalisation, with our
focus the core research challenges of the next few years, and
the consequences of these trends for the software engineering
curriculum. |
Current Issues in Software Internationalisation
http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~hogan/pub/inter.pdf
Hogan, James M., Chris Ho-Stuart and Binh Pham
Queensland University of Technology
Abstract: The trend toward globalisation of products and services
has brought a strong economic imperative to the development
of general methods for the localisation of software
to different cultural environments. While ad hoc, bolt-on
localisation may satisfy immediate commercial objectives,
its extension to multiple locales is not cost-effective and
an integrated strategy is needed. In this more sustainable
approach, known as software internationalisation, the requirements
of disparate markets are addressed during analysis
and system design, with the architecture developed so
that localisation to a particular environment is straightforward,
and involves minimal re-engineering.
Given the limited size of the Australasian market, detailed
attention to the technical issues of internationalisation
is of critical importance to the future of software development
in the region, as is the availability of graduates
adequately prepared for this environment. Thus motivated,
this paper examines the state of play in a number of aspects
of application level software internationalisation, with our
focus the core research challenges of the next few years, and
the consequences of these trends for the software engineering
curriculum.
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