Quality Assurance Settings

The main aim of quality assurance (QA) checks is to help you efficiently handle different language-specific aspects in translations and ensure they are formatted the same way as the source strings and will fit the UI just as well. Some typical QA check issues include missed commas, extra spaces, or typos.

With QA checks, issues that should be fixed will be highlighted on the Proofread workflow step. QA checks help to detect some common mistakes easily and quickly. It’s recommended to review and resolve all QA check issues before building your project and downloading translations.

In the Quality Assurance section, you can manage the types of QA issues to be highlighted in the Editor during the translation process.

Configure QA Checks

By default, QA checks are enabled. To select the needed QA checks in your project, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to Settings > Quality assurance.
2. Select the QA check types according to your preferences.
3. For each selected QA check type, select whether it should be possible to save translations with QA issues using two available options: Error and Warning.

Warning – the system notifies translators about the QA issues with suggestions on how to fix them, but it would still be possible to save the translation using the Save anyway button.

Error – the system notifies translators about the QA issues with suggestions on how to fix them. It wouldn’t be possible to save the translation until all QA issues are fixed.

Once enabled, QA checks will work in the background and scan the translations for potential QA issues.

Custom Quality Assurance Checks Learn how to create custom QA checks.

Spell Checker Ignore List

If your project contains some uncommon words that are not recognized by the Spell checker, you can add them to the Ignore list to exclude them from being checked.

To review the words added to the Ignore list for the Spell checker, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to Settings > Quality assurance.
2. Click Ignore list on the top right side.

In the opened window you can see the list of words added to the ignore list. You can filter or remove them from the list if necessary.

QA Check Parameters

Omissions – strings that lack or have excessive translations.

• Source is empty but the translation is not
• Translation is empty but the source is not

Translation length limit – translations that are longer than the limit of characters you set.

Tip

To set character limits for specific strings, go to Sources > Strings. Double-click on the needed string and set the max. length. This means that translators will be notified that a translation for the particular string can’t be longer than the specified limit. This is useful when the space for the given text is limited.

Tags – strings that use HTML might lack some opening or closing tags in translations.

• Inconsistent tags in the source and translation
• ID attributes consistency
• CDATA tag consistency

Spacing – multiple spaces in a row, missing spaces.

• Spaces around special symbols
• Start and end newline characters
• Start and end spaces
• Multiple spaces in succession
• Non-breaking spaces

Variables – placeholders used in a translation match placeholders used in the source string.

• Common variables
• Python, Java, .NET, C/C++, Ruby on Rails, Twig, PHP, Freemaker variable placeholders
• Custom variables (per request)

Punctuation – punctuation mistakes or differences in the punctuation marks.

• Inconsistent punctuation in source and translation
• Spacing before and after punctuation marks

Character case – the lower or upper case that used differently in source and translated strings.

• Initial capitalization
• Unexpected multiple capitalized characters in succession

Special characters – new paragraphs, currency signs, and other special characters that used differently in translated strings.

• Bracket consistency
• Markup language entities
• Quotes and quote escapes

Open translation issues by project members – show reported translation issues on the Proofread workflow step.

Spell checker – underline misspelled words.

ICU Markup syntax check – the correct usage of the ICU message syntax in translations.

Consistent terminology – checks whether the source words are translated accordingly to the respective glossary terms.

Limitations

Currently available for English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, and Turkish.

Duplicate – translations that duplicate already existing translation.

FTL Markup syntax check – the correct usage of the FTL syntax in translations.

Android Markup syntax check – the correct usage of the Android syntax in translations.