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Asked: 2026-06-09T15:47:55+00:00

Let’s say you make an application that attempts to transliterate stuff from alphabet A

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Let’s say you make an application that attempts to transliterate stuff from alphabet A into alphabet B, as closely as possible.

Because language B is very complex, this is not always successful. But you do get an approximate transliteration.

How would you build unit tests in this case, considering that you expect 20-30% to fail?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It must always be the goal that your unit test is successful. The way you use it, you can not differentiate between serious errors in your software and the errors in the translations you seem to expect.

    I would suggest to separate both:

    1. Use unit tests only to make sure that your software works the way you expect it (even if this includes some mistakes in the translations)
    2. Produce a test dataset containing the translations produced by your software. You can check this test dataset either manually or using a statistical software package like R to get an idea of the quality of your translations.
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