Website Quality Assurance Testing

Question

I have recently downloaded an app I have been looking for, for quite some time. It basically spiders a website and shows references to dead links, pages etc: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html.

I am finding this very useful for quality assurance of the websites we publish.

I was wondering if anyone uses a application that spiders a site like this, but also checks things such as missing ALT tags, accessbility issues and valid xHtml code.

Answer 1

Using the W3C validator is a good idea as well.

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Answer 2

If you want accessibility checking, the one that I know of is HiSoftware's Cynthia Says. There are some drawbacks - it only checks 1 page at a time (at least, I don't know of a way to check an entire site) and you can only check 1 page on a given site each minute.

However, HiSoftware does make commercially available tools for accessibility checking, with regards to 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. I've never used any of these tools, though.

Answer 3

Selenium IDE is an automation QA plugin for Firefox. It is easy to configure using a single HTML table to write rules.