Linkscan 7.4 - New Powerful Quality Assurance Features Added
San Jose, CA, November 28, 2000. Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) is pleased to announce the release of LinkScan 7.4.The LinkScan family of products deliver industrial-strength test automation and website management capabilities. In addition to extremely high accuracy, LinkScan offers exceptional performance and scalability for extremely large websites and Intranet applications. Advanced customization features allow webmasters and quality assurance engineers to create completely automated test suites.
LinkScan 7.4 incorporates a host of new features including:
The LinkScan™ Recorder is a Windows application that interfaces with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It may be used to capture real web browsing sessions, such as a complex order entry sequence. The captured recording includes all of the data entered into any associated forms. LinkScan may then be configured to replay the recording on demand, validating every link on each form and results page in the sequence. Hence LinkScan and the LinkScan Recorder provide powerful and convenient capabilities for the rapid and comprehensive regression testing of complex transaction-based systems.
We have greatly enhanced the LinkScan Import feature which now includes two separate functions: Import Links and Import Documents. The first may be used to validate a simple list of URL's that is derived from some external source such as an SQL database or spreadsheet export. The second may be used to validate a list of documents, including all of the links within each document. Such sequences may be generated with the LinkScan Recorder or derived from some other source.
LinkScan can now parse and extract any hyperlinks embedded in ShockWave/Flash files.
We have enhanced LinkScan with the ability to add customized hyperlinks at various points throughout the reports. This provides a flexible means to integrate the LinkScan Reports with other applications. For example, these links may be configured to activate functions within a content management or other database management system.
Some web servers are configured in a manner that may mask serious errors from end users and link checkers alike. This typically arises when the server responds to an invalid request by delivering a user-friendly error page with a 200 OK status code rather than a 404 Not Found. We have enhanced LinkScan with directives that may be used to force a 404 Not Found Error in these situations.
We have enhanced the link status information displayed on the LinkScan Reports. The LinkScan database now includes an additional extended status information field which is used to display supplementary information about certain link types.
We have incorporated additional locking protections such that multiple Projects may safely be scanned simultaneously. Note that any attempt to scan a Project that is currently being scanned by another user/process, will be refused.
The LinkScan family of products addresses the complete spectrum of needs at affordable prices ranging from $300 to $5,000. Cross-platform and cross-product compatibility provides seamless migration for rapidly growing organizations while protecting all existing investments. For larger companies in particular, this also means direct cost savings in deployment, user training and system administration.
LinkScan operates on all Unix Systems (including AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, Linux, and SunOS/Solaris flavors), and Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT/2000) platforms.
Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 7.4 may be downloaded from the company's website at: