What is a software quality assurance check?

Translation Quality Assurance software (hereinafter referred to as TQA tools) compares the source and target segments of bilingual texts (saved in .doc, .rtf, and .ttx files) in order to detect translation errors. Such errors include: inconsistencies; terms that have not been translated in accordance with a project glossary; omissions; target segments that are identical to source segments; punctuation, capitalization and number value/formatting errors; and incorrect untranslatables and tags.