Goals and processes

Before you invest your time and money into the development of globalized applications, you will benefit from a planning process that gives you an opportunity to consider how you can efficiently and effectively serve your users. The information in this topic will help you develop such a plan.

• Globalization development goals
  Use this topic when you are planning for, and creating, international applications.
• Market research process
  The most important factor for every decision is that you know for whom you are designing and developing your applications. To determine the answer to this question, ask yourself and your potential customers these types of questions.
• Development process
  Before you are ready to develop NLS-enabled applications, consider this information for a successful development process.
• Documentation process
  Documentation should provide information for the end users of the application system in their own language. The documentation should also include installation, setup, and customization information for the user, the system operator, and the application system manager.
• Translation process
  Translating the textual data is a very time-consuming process. The textual data should be available to translators very early in the development stage, even before the code is stable. Consider the areas in this topic when planning for translation.
• Testing process
  The testing of a globalization-enabled product should be done in the phases listed in this topic.
• Packaging and installation process
  Consider running code, translated textual data, and installation documents when packaging applications. This topic lists some suggestions for simplifying the packaging and installation of your application.
• Application maintenance process
  Consider these points when planning for maintenance of a multilingual application.