QA Focus in-house QA: Audits July 2003 Report

August 2012 Audit

An audit was made of the QA Focus Web site on Tuesday 7^th August 2012.

HTML Validation

The ,rvalidate HTML validation tool was run over the entire QA Focus Web site from the entry points listed below:

Area	Report	Comments	Current findings
QA Focus web site	[View report]	All resources compliant, but only 100 pages checked.	[Validate]
Documents Area	[View report]	All resources compliant, but only 100 pages checked.	[Validate]

Comments

Based on these findings the areas audited have been found to be valid HTML.

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CSS Validation

The ,cssvalidate tool was run over selected resources on the QA Focus Web site in order to validate a number of the external stylesheet files. The check was carried out from the entry points listed in the following table.

Area	Comments	Current findings
QA Focus entry point	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Documents Area	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Case Studies	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Surveys	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Presentations Area	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]

Results

The CSS files checked appeared to comply with the CSS standard.

Comments

Note that the validation was carried out using a remote testing service. Since the QA Focus Web site used user-agent negotiation to provide a simplified CSS file to old Netscape browsers this CSS file will not necessarily be validated. Also not that inline CSS declarations on resources on the Web site will not be checked.

Exceptions: This form of validating does not cover inline style sheets. The toolkit area of the site uses inline stylesheets so was checked manually.

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Link Checking

The ,rchecklink Tool

The ,rchecklink tool was run over the entire QA Focus site from the points listed below:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/

Area	Report	Comments	Current findings
QA Focus entry point	[View report]	Analysis timed out before completion.	[Check]
Documents Area	[View report]	Analysis timed out before completion.	[Check]

Results

A number of broken links to external resources were detected. These were due to changes by external Web sites.

Comments

Note that the link-checking tools do have some limitations. For example some Web sites have a short 'time out' time, others blocked access to checking tools by the robots.txt, the Web site may be temporarily unavailable, etc.

The Xenu Tool

In addition to the tool described above the Xenu software (version 1.3.8) was also used to link-check the QA Focus site. This tool was used in order to ensure that all resources on the QA Focus Web site were checked and to see if any link problems not detected by the ,rchecklink tool were found.

Xenu was used to check local links. Pages hosted in the /qa/audits/folder/ (which was used to keep a record of previous audits) were not checked.

Results

The Xenu link check results for local links is available.