What is The Turkey Test?

Question

I came across the word \'The Turkey Test\' while learning about code testing. I don\'t know really what it means.

What is Turkey Test? Why is it called so?

Answer 1

The so called "Turkey Test" is related to Software internationalization. One problem of globalization/internationalization are that date and time formats in different cultures can differ on many levels (day/month/year order, date separator etc).

Also, Turkey has some special rules for capitalization, which can lead to problems. For example, the Turkish "i" character is a common problem for many programs which capitalize it in a wrong way.