DocumentCode :
2400861
Title :
Mining for localization in Android
Author :
Reina, Laura Arjona ; Robles, Gregorio
Author_Institution :
Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
fYear :
2012
fDate :
2-3 June 2012
Firstpage :
136
Lastpage :
139
Abstract :
Localization, and in particular translation, is a key aspect of modern end-user software applications. Open source systems have traditionally taken advantage of distributed and volunteer collaboration to carry localization tasks. In this paper, we will analyze the Android source code repository to know how localization and translation is managed: who participates in this kind of tasks, if the translation workflows, participants and processes follow the same patterns as the rest of the development, and if the Android project takes benefit from external contributions. Our results show that Android should ease the localization tasks to benefit from external contributions. Steps towards obtaining a specialized team as found in many other free software projects are also encouraged.
Keywords :
data mining; operating systems (computers); public domain software; software engineering; Android source code repository; open source system; software localization; software repository mining; software translation; Androids; Data mining; Humanoid robots; Kernel; Linux; Software engineering; Android; i18n; l10n; localization; mining software repositories; translation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
ISSN :
2160-1852
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1760-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2012.6224272
Filename :
6224272
Link To Document :
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