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Tips for testing multi-lingual web sites

This is a article by: Inder P Singh(picked from a site) These days a number of web sites are deployed in multiple languages. As companies perform more and more business in other countries, the number of such global multi-lingual web applications will continue to increase. Testing web sites supporting multiple languages has its own fair share of challenges. In this article, I will share seven tips with you that will enable you to test the multi-lingual browser-based applications in a complete way: Tip # 1 – Prepare and use the required test environment If a web site is hosted in English and Japanese languages, it is not enough to simply change the default browser language and perform identical tests in both the languages. Depending on its implementation, a web site may figure out the correct language for its interface from the browser language setting, the regional and language settings of the machine, a configuration in the web application or other factors. Therefore, in

IE6 countdown started

Many do not like using IE6, for such there is a news IE6 countdown is coming to 1% from 6%. Do your bit by joining the cause in http://www.theie6countdown.com You also have a new and a great looking IE9 released. Enjoy working on it.

Extract all URLs in a web page

Excellent way of extracting all URLs from a web page. If you have a web page and you want to extract the URLs in complete web application, there is a way. Go to http://www.web-max.ca/PHP/misc_23.php, enter the URL in the text box given at the end of the php code. It crawls the entire web page and extracts all the URLs in the web pages and provides the list. Copy and paste it in the excel. Thanks for the Cool code.

Factors for link testing

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

Google helps you search and receive search results through email

To search and receive google search results through email. Just send an email to google@capeclear.com and enter the text of your query in the "Subject" line. You will receive the search results as email to your mail id. Once you get the result for the searches... u can get the contents of a URL using the below feature!! To receive the web content of a url send email to web@pagegetter.com and subject should contain the URL whose content has to be fetched. Thanks to the No-Internet and only MAILING community.

Check external links in excel

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

Tips for testing multi-lingual web sites

This is a article by: Inder P Singh(picked from a site) These days a number of web sites are deployed in multiple languages. As companies perform more and more business in other countries, the number of such global multi-lingual web applications will continue to increase. Testing web sites supporting multiple languages has its own fair share of challenges. In this article, I will share seven tips with you that will enable you to test the multi-lingual browser-based applications in a complete way: Tip # 1 – Prepare and use the required test environment If a web site is hosted in English and Japanese languages, it is not enough to simply change the default browser language and perform identical tests in both the languages. Depending on its implementation, a web site may figure out the correct language for its interface from the browser language setting, the regional and language settings of the machine, a configuration in the web application or other factors. Therefore, in orde