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- From: mikef@syacus.acus.oz.au (Mike Floyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Testing MS Windows Help
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.021808.11040@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 02:18:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: syacus.1992Sep14.021808.11040
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- Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
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- kstout@medieval.East.Sun.COM (Kate Stout - Sun PC Network Engineering) writes:
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- >I'd like to get a sense of how people are testing OnLine Help systems
- >in Windows. Are you using tools? If so what, and how good are they?
-
- >What other ideas do you have? We'd like to test
-
- >1) completeness -- all jumps/popups go to the right thing
- >2) flow --- browse sequences are right, for example
- >3) all hotspots (.shg) show the right topics
-
- >As a side note, has anyone created a .dll or a macro for help that
- >lets you print all the topics in one file with one command? If not,
- >Microsoft... are you listening???? It would be great to go paper free.
-
-
- There are two issues here: testing the software and testing the content of
- the help itself. We use Autotester for Windows for testing that all links work
- correctly in the file, though if it's a small file and you won't need to do
- much in the way of regression testing, you'd be better off testing the links
- manually.
-
- From the authoring point of view, what needs to be tested is not that links
- work but that the destination of each link is the logically correct topic.
- Currently we do this manually (groan). Anyone know of a program that can search
- a compiled help file and identify synonyms between hotwords and destination
- topic titles?
-
- Autotester for Windows is available from Software Recording Corporation in
- Dallas TX, Ph 214-368-119.
-