Tool Mentor: Verifying a Website

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to verify a website, to male sure that there are no broken links, language is correct, etc.

Overview

1. Check hyperlinks
2. Check spelling
3. Verify the treebrowser

Check hyperlinks

Using Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer, use the command Tools>Verify Hyperlinks.... This will verify that there are no broken links left. Other test tools can be used instead of, or as a complement, to FrontPage.

Check spelling

Using Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer, use the command Tools>Spelling.... to automatically check the spelling.

Verify the treebrowser

The treebrowser is described  in the file applet/tree.dat. The treebrowser can be verified automatically. When you generate a new Process Overview Table (See Tool Mentor: Using the Rational Unified Process Tools), this is done with the applet/tree.dat file as input. This means that the Process Overview Table will have the hyperlinks that are in the "tree.dat" file.

1. Generate a new Process Overview Table.
2. Use the Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer to verify the hyperlinks, Tools>Verify Hyperlinks...
3. Check for broken links in the file "sitemap/sitemap.htm". If there are any broken links in that file, it means that there are broken links in the tree.dat file.