228734 - HTML Validation Tests

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 148487

(Bugzilla :: Testing Suite, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

It would be good to have tests that checked that Bugzilla output properly HTML
validates.

justdave says gmuck might be the utility we would use.

Presumably validating templates directly would be difficult to impossible, and
validating templates with empty input wouldn't handle all possible outputs, so
manually instantiating the templates with specific data input that achieved full
coverage would probably be the way to go.

One issue is whether to require test suite users to install the validation
software.  This might be too much to ask, so it might just pass the tests if the
software isn't installed.  We could maybe add a switch to the test suite that
required all dependencies be present and fail otherwise.  I doubt this will be
the last case where the test suite will require some external software.

Another issue is how to run a separate executable to do the validation.  We
could add the absolute path to localconfig, but it seems a little strange to me
to be doing that for the testing suite.  Also, this has problems under
ActiveState so it should probably just pass there, unless we have no intention
of letting the Win32 people check their work.

We could also think about validating CSS, JS and XML.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148487 ***