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Ted Gould wrote on 20/08/11 05:10:
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So it seems regularly about this time in the cycle we start getting
bugs about ... in our code instead of …. Seems that they always
creep back in, and that's very annoying. How do we keep bugs out?
Through testing!
I've created a small test[1] to test for the presence of ... at the
end of user visible strings in the code, and to fail if it finds any.
The test is cleverly called test-ellipsis and it uses the POT file
from gettext to look at all the user visible strings (since all user
visible strings are translatable).
Awesome! I remember discussing something similar with Neil Patel after
UDS Maverick.
I'm writing so that people know a bit about it when it fails, but also
to ask if there's anything else that I should add with a similar
methodology before I replicate this snippet across Ayatana projects.
...
Space before an ellipsis at the end of a string.
Wrong: Sound Settings …
Right: Sound Settings…
Ascii apostrophe.
Wrong: In the clock's menu, show:
Right: In the clock’s menu, show:
Ascii quote mark.
Wrong: 'Are you sure you want to delete %s and all its settings?'
Right: 'Are you sure you want to delete “%s” and all its settings?'
Backtick.
Wrong: Authentication is needed to run `%s` as the super user
Right: Authentication is needed to run ”%s” as the super user
(ignoring, for the moment, the other problems with that string)
System policy prevents.
Wrong: System policy prevents querying keyboard settings.
Right: To access keyboard settings, you need to authenticate.
Wrong: System policy prevents formatting this device.
Right: To format this device, you need to authenticate.
Others are more context-sensitive, and therefore harder to scan for:
Period at the end of a checkbox or radio button label.
Wrong: ☑ Automatically shorten pasted URLs.
Right: ☑ Automatically shorten pasted URLs
Always at the start of a checkbox label.
Wrong: ☑ Always show the tab bar
Right: Show the tab bar: ◉ Always ○ When there’s more than one tab
Enable at the start of a checkbox label.
Wrong: ☑ Enable logging of conversations to disk
Right: ☑ Save chat logs
Don’t at the start of a checkbox label.
Wrong: ☑ Don’t attach connectors to text objects
Right: ☐ Attach connectors to text objects
It would be super cool if this kind of automated interface design
testing could be applied to all graphical software shipped by default.
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