Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Managing Intranet and Web Sites with SiteCheck and Robot

You use Rational SiteCheck to test the structural integrity of your intranet or World Wide Web site. SiteCheck is designed to help you view, track, and maintain your rapidly changing site.

Use SiteCheck to:
  • Visualize the structure of your Web site and display the relationship between each page and the rest of the site.

  • Identify and analyze Web pages with active content, such as forms, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, and Visual Basic Script (VBScript).

  • Filter information so that you can inspect specific file types and defects, including broken links.

  • Examine and edit the source code for any Web page, with color-coded text.

  • Update and repair files using the integrated editor, or configure your favorite HTML editor to perform modifications to HTML files.

  • Perform comprehensive testing of secure Web sites. SiteCheck provides Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support, proxy server configuration, and support for multiple password realms.

Robot has two verification points for use with Web sites:


  1. Use the Web Site Scan verification point to check the content of your Web site with every revision and ensure that changes have not resulted in defects.

  2. Use the Web Site Compare verification point to capture a baseline of your Web site and compare it to the Web site at another point in time.

The following figures show the types of defects you can scan for using a Web Site verification point and the list of defects displayed in SiteCheck.