loadrunner Do loadrunner support multi-language?

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Wouldn't you do that with direct url changes? Or in some cases submitted headers?? I don't think there is a facility that just says "change default locale" however.
 
Petar Puskarich - we can flip the direct url changes in script, but thought of different language support like Japanese, Chinese.... etc.,
 
Ahh yeah, I've not had to test for different character sets even, but I would expect that would be header and mime type changes. You do raise a great point however in that I've thought for years that there should be more "functional" testing features added into Vugen natively. Would have to develop the libraries to do it but should be possible right?
 
LR doesn't care about the language of the App Under Test (AUT). It's just data. Doesn't matter if the label of a button says "Hello", "Namaste", "Hola", or "Konnichiwa". What matters is that you find the button and click it or submit the URL for the post action. Now if you are using the same script where the AUT changes language based on localization and you have a text check, then you may need to do a dynamic text check or look for some other success criteria. Even if the response page text is multibyte language, it doesn't change the response of the app. Maybe I just don't fully understand your use case.
 
I think you are right Erik . I know when we were doing scripting for our dynamic content generator that changed server responses on the fly based on user geographic location rules it was quite interesting writing the validation checker to catch all the rules that could be invoked.
 
Yeah, Petar, my thought would be that you could build a table like so: Lang, Text1, Text2, Text3, ... TextN Then fill it with the language code and appropriate message to verify. It just seems clunky to me. I don't see what this has to do with the purpose of sending volumes of users against the AUT. Maybe I'm just not thinking outside of my rectangular enclosure.
 
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Eric Deehr - On European languages i think sometimes lr cookies can favour, but when it comes to symbolized language, correlation values may create issues, and it may also require language installation pack, not sure...
 
Anbalagan Vivek: scripting should not be an issue, validating text checks can be.May be you can have different servers for different geographical locations and based on that you can correlate the server names and have text checks based on that.
 
I've scripted for Arabic web application past year. Before starting scripting, I changed the windows Language to Arabic. It worked fine without changing the VUser Generator server System Language...