Testing

Web site design and development process

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• Design: CSS tools, Free fonts, Free photos, Emoji & icons
• Testing & delivery: Usability test, check browser compatibility | Web testing | Speed up websites: Web Ping, Software acceptance test plan | Promote your web
• Maintenance: Site backup & restore test, Software update (OS patch or CMS security update)
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remote node

browser

• connect to http://ip:80
• or use the website monitoring services: Web Ping

Validation service

Validator: Check Markup or CSS syntax

user client node

browser issue

• browser version: Check Browser Compatibility
• clear browser cache
  • client temporary files
  • clear server cache ex: Smarty Caching

plug-ins issue

• Test your Adobe Flash Player installation
• Adobe - Test Adobe Shockwave Player
• test java: How do I test whether Java is working on my computer?

local node (if you can login the server via SSH or Remote desktop service)

check the service port

telnet

1. telnet localhost 80
2. get (get & space)

netstat ex: find MySQL 3306 port

1. netstat -a | find "3306"

tools

1. PFPortCheck Program: check TCP/UDP port from localhost(where you installed the program) to portforward.com

check the server/service logs

• Apache HTTP server log: /etc/httpd/logs (location was set up in the configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)
  • access.log
  • error.log - record when the apache service restarted/stopped

• MySQL Server Logs: enable logging /var/log/mysql.log (location was set up in the configuration file /etc/my.cnf or my.ini) and restart MySQL service

general_log = 1
general_log_file="general_log_file.log"
slow_query_log = 1
slow_query_log_file="slow_query_log_file.log"

• PHP log: check the configuration file: /etc/php.ini (the location of configuration file can be verified by phpinfo() )
  • unmark theese lines in the php.ini and restart Apache service

log_errors = On
error_log = "php_error.log"

• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) log (記錄檔)
  • C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\

• Microsoft Windows
  • XP / Vista: 控制台 --> 系統管理工具 --> 事件檢視器

find match string

• grep 'string' filename -r
  • manual, 教學

related topic

• Comment Syntax
• 設定中斷點

related terms

• functional testing