With the expanding global software market, it is becoming more and more important to deliver timely, cost effective, and high quality globalization of software products. This is a big challenge for the globalization testing, where the number of test configurations can grow exponentially. This paper discusses importance of globalization and its consequences for QA, and then introduces both technical and process solutions by an innovative QA automation and the workflow.

We will discuss one possible approach to simultaneously achieve cost saving and the quality improvement of localized software testing. From the technology stand point, we leverage open standard technologies such as Java, X11, XML, and Unicode to build portable QA framework, which runs on any open platforms (such as Solaris and Linux). We cover both white box and black box testing for Java and X11 applications. We will also discuss innovative automation approaches such as utilizing accessibility APIs. From the process stand point, we will discuss an "end to end" internationalization and localization QA workflow process in fully automated QA environment taking advantage of both in house resources and any external resources available on the internet. We will show real examples from our Solaris system testing for the global market in our discussion.