simple web/html testing

[Tim]

On Jun 8, 9:57 am, Santi <santi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> For static html testing, I'd avoid using Selenium. Even though Selenium is *the* tool for RIA and javascript intensive environments, feels like bringing up a browser with all the coordination and resources that it takes just to crawl the website and find 404s is an overkill.
>
> What we implemented for doing that is just a simple crawler based on urllib:
>
> < nice code snipped >
>
> Hope this helps
>

Hi,
Yes, Santi that does help, a lot. And Burhan thanks--I see how I can
use selenium for broken links, but for now at least, I'm going to
write my own tests for the static html.

After hours of searching and reading, I think my direction is to use
Jenkins and Nose together so I can have centralized control over my
test runs along with nice reports.

I may write a Nose plugin later on for static html, but for now I'll
just write simple tests and see how that goes. I don't see that anyone
is using nose in this non-standard way (on static html rather than on
python code), but I so far I don't see any reason why it won't work.

Santi, you gave me a start with that code--I can rewrite that as a
nose test and execute it with Jenkins and the broken-link portion of
the tests should be done.

Does that sound appropriate for my use-case (jenkins/nose-> static
html)?  The testing is for a large set of documentation that is built
daily.

thanks again,
--Tim