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Link testing Many feel its just clicking the links, but it is not so. It has many factors which are supposed to be checked when testing the links in any web application. Factors for link testing 1. Check the link style- color,font,color when already visited 2. Check the tool tip for the link 3. Check the navigation of the link - Navigating to a web page in same window - Navigating to a web page in different window - Opening a document in same page - Opening a document in different window - opening an image or video 4. Check the parameters saved in cookie if the application is localized 5. Any identification if it is an external link. 6. Performance of the link 7. Time taken for navigation of the link There are many tools or link checkers which navigate through the complete web application and provide the list of breaking URLs. I suggest Xenu link checker. Observe these key factors when using link checker for testing links 1. Link checkers can take web page as in

I thought Testing or checking the hyperlinks which are navigating to external web page is a tedious task. Searched for a tool very seriously which can test all the hyperlinks in excel and produce a report of the broken links. Did not found any tool which can take excel with hyperlinks as the input and produce report. Requirement was - An excel is available with many hyperlinks. I need to check each link and prepare a report of which one is working and which one is not working. Finally got a solution 1. Copy only links from the excel which are to be tested to new excel sheet. 2. New excel sheet should not have any labels or any cells containing values other than hyperlinks type. 3. Save the excel as web page. 4. It will be saved as .html page. 5. Input this html page to any link checker which takes the web page as input. 6. See that "checking local links" option is set in the link checker. 7. This HTML page should be given as a file input to