Create LAT issue

Create LAT issue

Intended audience
Language Tester

References

Watch the instruction video.

This article explains how a language tester can report an issue.

Editable fields

The dialog to enter an issue has one more of the following fields. Fields may be optional or mandatory, depending on the quality profile that the project manager selected for this language test.

Edit-field
Description
Priority

The priority indicates how fast an issue must be resolved.

Priority
Definition
None
Translation preferential change (not applicable for non-translation issues).
Low
Nice-to-have functional or source text improvement; small linguistic issues like minor spelling or punctuation mistake.
MediumDoes not affect the usage of the functionality, but impacts user experience, e.g. meaning mistake, grammar error.
High
Causes great difficulty in using functionality or impacts confidence in the product ​.
Very high
Showstoppers, interruptions of business or loss of data.


Severity

The severity indicates how bad an issue is for the usability.

Severity
Definition
Neutral / None
Improvement, nice to have.
Minor
Errors that do not affect the usage of the functionality.
Major
Causes great difficulty in using functionality or impacts confidence in the product ​.
Critical
Showstoppers, interruptions of business or loss of data.

Error category
The error categories depend on the quality framework. An error category may have sub-categories. You can select main and/or sub-categories.



Comment
Free text.

Suggested translation
Suggest a better translation here.

Hint: use the short-cut icon to copy the current translation, and then do a quick edit.



Read-only fields

Read-only field
Description
Current translation
The translation at the moment that you create this issue.
Note: this translation will be stored with this issue, even if the translation is later changed.

Source text
The source text at the moment that you create this issue.
Note: this source text will be stored with this issue, even if the source is later changed.

Selected string ID
Unique identifier of the selected string.

Example





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