Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Xbench for QA - do you like it?
Poster: Michael Joseph Wdowiak Beijer
Post title: You want the truth... ? :-)
[quote]Ditte Duclert wrote:
Hi,
A client has asked me to get and use Xbench for QA of files translated in Trados Studio. Now, I generally feel I have had enough of new softwares to get to know and use, so I would like your input, please, if you use Xbench as a quality assurance tool. I am referring specifically to the free version.
Do you like it? Do you use it with every project? Would you recommend it to improve quality of your work? Is it as simple to learn as my clients says it is?
Thank you in advance!
:) [/quote]
The party line: Yes, it's great, and I use it, and all manner of other QA tools on my transaltiomn work after finishing it.
A perhaps more realistic version: I usually don't have much time for that kind of thing once I'm finished, and I am actually quite slow and methodical in my work anyway, so hope for the best ;-)
Having said that, the more my client pays me, the more time and effort I can expend on QA stuff. I currently us the various QA features in Déjà Vu X3. Also, if they are one of those clients that insist I work with SDL Studio projects, even though I have asked them politely and insistently if I can use my own CAT tool, I let them handle all the QA stuff in Studio. They asked for it.
I own a licence for Xbench, but have never really warmed to its QA functions. I use it solely for TMX editing stuff.
Michael
Topic: Xbench for QA - do you like it?
Poster: Michael Joseph Wdowiak Beijer
Post title: You want the truth... ? :-)
[quote]Ditte Duclert wrote:
Hi,
A client has asked me to get and use Xbench for QA of files translated in Trados Studio. Now, I generally feel I have had enough of new softwares to get to know and use, so I would like your input, please, if you use Xbench as a quality assurance tool. I am referring specifically to the free version.
Do you like it? Do you use it with every project? Would you recommend it to improve quality of your work? Is it as simple to learn as my clients says it is?
Thank you in advance!
:) [/quote]
The party line: Yes, it's great, and I use it, and all manner of other QA tools on my transaltiomn work after finishing it.
A perhaps more realistic version: I usually don't have much time for that kind of thing once I'm finished, and I am actually quite slow and methodical in my work anyway, so hope for the best ;-)
Having said that, the more my client pays me, the more time and effort I can expend on QA stuff. I currently us the various QA features in Déjà Vu X3. Also, if they are one of those clients that insist I work with SDL Studio projects, even though I have asked them politely and insistently if I can use my own CAT tool, I let them handle all the QA stuff in Studio. They asked for it.
I own a licence for Xbench, but have never really warmed to its QA functions. I use it solely for TMX editing stuff.
Michael
