Ideas for Tests for Static Sites

Introduction

We aim to give some ideas for automated tests that can be added to test static web sites, normally those generated by static site generators.

Some of them may be applicable to other kinds of projects.

The List

Test that the site builds

• Use Continuous Integration (CI) Services.

• Aim for reproducible builds .

• One can use Virtual machines ( KVM , VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, etc. ) and Docker for ascertaining that most of the dependencies were specified.

Test for valid markup

• https://github.com/shlomif/python-vnu_validator

• https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/validate-your-html/

Test for proper spelling and grammar

• Hunspell

Content-based tests

• E.g: https://github.com/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage/blob/master/Tests/content.t and https://github.com/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage/blob/master/Tests/content-main.py .

Test for working JavaScript / etc

• puppeteer

• node.js - run JavaScript on the command line

Test for broken links

• https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/

• https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker

• https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/WWW-LinkChecker-Internal/scripts/link-checker

Test for case-insensitive filename collisions

• https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::File::Find::CaseCollide

• Optimised GNU shell-based script

Autoformatting / linting

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_%28software%29

• tidyall

Reproducible builds and getting identical results after a rebuild

• https://reproducible-builds.org/

Tests that verify lack of content differences in before and after a refactoring change

• E.g: https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/blob/master/shlomif-settings/Bash/Themes/common/latemp_diff.bash and https://github.com/shlomif/fc-solve/blob/master/fc-solve/site/wml/bin/reduce-differences-in-diff-dash-r.bash .

• See GNU diff with the "-u -r" flags.

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