Advice
for general configuration
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Choose
your SiteSet configuration based on the size of your site
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Integrating
SiteSpec with your testing process
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A basic configuration to test a web site would be to have the domain URL entered in the PAGES TO VERIFY and the following SiteSet options marked:
- Verify Images
- Verify Sites
- Record Successful URLs
- Verify External Links
- Sub Domain Spider
Please refer to the other items below for other considerations.
Small Size Sites (<50 Pages, <300 Links, <300 Links)
Because of the amount of memory need to run smaller sites, they can be configured without restrictions. In general a web site under 50 pages would take under five minutes and would not stress the computer that it is running on.
Medium Size Sites (<400 Pages, <3500 Links, <3500 Links)
When running on sites of the size the user should begin to use precautions. Medium size sites can take up to an hour to perform and require more hard disk space to store results. One saved results file can exceed 1MB.
Unless you need to track the successful URLs disable the "Record Successful URLs" option. Only the errors and warnings will be stored which will greatly reduce the size of saved results. However, in this version of SiteSpec disabling this feature will increase the test time.
Another option available is to disable Warnings and/or Server Errors. You may encounter only warnings which are transparent to the user and only clutter your results.
Large Size Sites (>400 Pages, >3500 Links, >3500 Links)
There is a risk of running memory and crashing SiteSpec if the number of pages, links or images is too great. The first step to avoid this is to split the web site sub-folders across different SiteSets instead of running the whole domain under the same SiteSet:
instead of a SiteSet running on the domain www.test-engine.com ......
.......run separate on separate sub-domain folders
www.test-engine.com/downloads/
www.test-engine.com/services/
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...Follow the suggestions mentioned under Medium Size Sites for more information.
SiteSpec is designed to run on live web sites primarily to test for broken links and missing images.
We advise to run SiteSpec:
- Before the public release of any web site
- Whenever changes have been made to the web site or pages within it.
- Periodically even if changes have not been made to test for broken external links or other unexpected errors.
If SiteSpec is being used as part of a large scale development process use the Error And Warning Note to track issues with the sites in question. These files can easily be backed-up and distributed.
You may also want to import results into a database. The results file (SiteSpec/runs/SiteSite name_results.txt) is a comma delimited text file which can be imported directly using a database tool such as MS Access. WARNING Do not move or delete SiteSpec files or SiteSpec may become inoperable.