Quality assurance and quality control tools and services
The efficient execution of quality control activities can be greatly enhanced by application or use of the appropriate tools.
The webmasters toolbox provides several tools to check the quality of your pages.
The following are recommended:
HTML validation– to check the correctness of the document against declared DOCTYPE
CSS validation – checking the validity of external style sheets called by your document.
Validating Accessibility - measuring how easy the site is to navigate and understand by users with different interactivity impairments, such as blind users (using screen readers) or mobility impaired users (using only keyboard commands)
Cross-browsers compatibility tools – measuring how well the site supports different browser applications and different operating systems.
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Browsers test environment
: test how your website works on different browsers - BrowserShots: makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers and platforms
- Mobile emulators: different types of emulator and the various ways in which they can be used
- Mobile devices emulators: list of software emulators to test your pages on most popular mobil devices.
Links validating – verification of links integrity
JavaScript - check the quality of the code
Website performance - check how long it takes to download a page
Multiple validators - checking HTML, CSS, accessibility, spell checker, broken links, screenshots, SEO, social services, etc.