Usually it takes hours to set up a new website. Before inviting your friends to visit your site, you’d better test your website for errors.
What should you test on your site? Here is my website testing checklist.
1.Test HTML and/or markup languages and scripts.
2.Test browser compatibility.
3.Check the content on your site: spelling, grammar, text and graphics display.
4.Check the functionality of your site, particularly the links including internal links, external links and emails. Make sure there are no 404 errors.
5.Test website navigation.
6.Test your website to see whether the web design is consistent.
7.Test your website security. For more information you can visit the following sites:
www.owasp.org,
www.w3.org/security/faq
www.w3.org/security/security-resource
If you need tools to test your website automatically, you may want to visit http://uitest.com/ where you will find a set of website testing tools.
When testing your site’s accessibility, you want to make sure that it is accessible not only to regular people using regular computers but also to handicapped people and people using mobile devices.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
How to Test a Website’s Browser Compatibility Online
Before launching your website, you have to test whether your new site can be displayed correctly in most popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Flock.
One way to test your website’s browser compatibility is to install all the latest versions of these browsers and open your site in them one by one. But it is going to take you a lot of time.
The other way is to run the test online, which will save you time and effort. One website that I find useful for the browser compatibility test is http://browsershots.org/. On this site, you can test your website on major browsers. They list the web browsers’ name and version under their operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD. The list is pretty long, but you really don’t need to test all of them. You can make your own choices by your needs.
Similar to the markup validator on W3.org, the BrowerShots is also a free tool for testing your website.
One way to test your website’s browser compatibility is to install all the latest versions of these browsers and open your site in them one by one. But it is going to take you a lot of time.
The other way is to run the test online, which will save you time and effort. One website that I find useful for the browser compatibility test is http://browsershots.org/. On this site, you can test your website on major browsers. They list the web browsers’ name and version under their operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD. The list is pretty long, but you really don’t need to test all of them. You can make your own choices by your needs.
Similar to the markup validator on W3.org, the BrowerShots is also a free tool for testing your website.
Check HTML Code Online: A Free Tool for Testing Your Website
Before launching your new website, you should run a thorough test on your site to see whether there are errors. You want to make sure that all the text, graphics, links and HTML codes are correct on your site.
To check HTML code online, you can use a free tool provided by W3C at http://validator.w3.org/. This markup validation service allows you to check the markup of web documents online. It is free and easy to use. What you need to do is just go to their site, choose the validate methods, and validate your document online. For instance, when using validate by URL, you need to put in your web address. If you don’t have a URL yet, you can validate HTML codes by uploading the file or pasting your markup directly on the site. This markup checking tool can be used to validate not only HTML but also other languages such as XHTML, SML, and so on.
If the report returned on http://validator.w3.org/ showed some errors or warnings, you can make changes correspondingly on your site. After making big changes to your site, you can run the markup test again on the same website. After repeating this process several times, you will make your site better for sure.
Besides, HTML Tidy (www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/)is another useful tool for checking HTML codes. You can also find an online version of HTML Tidy at http://infohound.net/tidy/.
To check HTML code online, you can use a free tool provided by W3C at http://validator.w3.org/. This markup validation service allows you to check the markup of web documents online. It is free and easy to use. What you need to do is just go to their site, choose the validate methods, and validate your document online. For instance, when using validate by URL, you need to put in your web address. If you don’t have a URL yet, you can validate HTML codes by uploading the file or pasting your markup directly on the site. This markup checking tool can be used to validate not only HTML but also other languages such as XHTML, SML, and so on.
If the report returned on http://validator.w3.org/ showed some errors or warnings, you can make changes correspondingly on your site. After making big changes to your site, you can run the markup test again on the same website. After repeating this process several times, you will make your site better for sure.
Besides, HTML Tidy (www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/)is another useful tool for checking HTML codes. You can also find an online version of HTML Tidy at http://infohound.net/tidy/.
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