Automated Resource File Translation in Code Review Workflows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Translating text strings in computer programs across different human-readable languages is inefficient, often resulting in omitted or incorrectly synchronized translations, leading to resource wastage in service-oriented architecture environments.
Innovation Solution
A system that integrates a source control system, resource file translator, and workflow manager to translate resource files in parallel with the code review process, ensuring translations are incorporated into the source code efficiently, reducing manual synchronization errors and improving development time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual translation and synchronization processes are used, then translations can be completed, but the process is tedious, time consuming, and prone to error
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated translation tools that automatically translate text strings and synchronize them with source code without requiring manual intervention. The workflow manager orchestrates the entire process, allowing the system to service itself rather than requiring human operators for each translation task.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes with automated computational systems. Machine translation algorithms substitute for human translators, and automated synchronization mechanisms replace manual code updating, thereby eliminating the tedious and error-prone nature of manual translation while maintaining high accuracy through systematic automation.
2Quantity of substance
If translations are performed manually, then text strings can be translated, but it is difficult and time consuming to identify text strings in source code that are to be translated
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the automated translation tool continuously monitors source code for text strings, translates them, and synchronizes the results back to the codebase. This closed-loop feedback system ensures that all translatable strings are identified and processed automatically, increasing both the quantity of translated strings and the overall productivity of the translation process.
3Productivity
If parallel translation during code review is implemented, then development time is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the translation process with the code review process by integrating them into a single workflow managed by the workflow manager. Instead of treating translation and code review as separate sequential tasks, the system combines them into parallel operations that occur simultaneously within the same development workflow, thereby reducing overall development time while managing complexity through unified orchestration.
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AI summary
A system for conducting a code review of program source code including translation of content in the program source code may include a source control system. The system may also include a resource file translator to facilitate translation of the content from a first language into second languages. Upon receipt of a code review request, the source control system may notify a workflow manager that the resource files contain the content for translation, and the workflow manager may notify a resource file translator that the program source code contains the content for translation. The resource file translator may cause translation of the resource files into translated resource files. The source control system may receive program source code under review from a code reviewer interface, and the resource file translator may update the program source code under review with the translated resource files.