Article on Testing Web Apps

From: Michael D. Crawford (crawford@goingware.com)
Date: Mon, Mar 05 2001

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    Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:09:31 -0800
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    From: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>
    Subject: Article on Testing Web Apps
    
    You might find this article interesting (I hope), I posted it just tonight:
    
    Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications
    http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/
    
    I appreciate any feedback you can give me on this first draft of my
    article.  I hadn't realized there was a mailing list for the W3C validator
    or I would have joined it before setting out to write the article.
    
    For example:
    
    - Are my arguments clear and convincing, that one should make the effort to
      rigorously test a web application?  A lot of people, maybe most, don't
    bother.
    
    - Is the information given helpful, complete and comprehensible?
    
    - Do you have anything I should correct or add, additional resources I should
      link to?
    
    - Do you have suggestions for future articles I might write on the general
    topic
      of achieving better quality in Free and Open Source software, resources that
      I could link to, or articles you might like to contribute yourself?
    
    - What do you think of my suggestion of integrating a validator into a load
      generator to test for document corruption from a server under heavy stress?
    
    The Linux Quality Database at:
    http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/
    
    has the long-term objective of writing an easy-to-use but powerful bug
    reporting database for the Linux kernel.  In the short term I'm working to
    promote better quality in our community's software in general by writing
    articles such as the one named here.
    
    Regards,
    
    Mike Crawford
    
    Michael D. Crawford
    GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
    http://www.goingware.com/
    crawford@goingware.com
    
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