LinkScan™ 11.0 with Powerful New Database
San Jose, CA, August 11, 2002. Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) is pleased to announce the release of LinkScan™ 11.0 with a powerful new datebase. This internal database engine results in dramatically faster reports, especially on larger websites.
In comparative tests, the time required to select, sort and display most of the commonly used reports is significantly reduced. On small websites (say 500 documents) the reports are displayed twice as fast. On large websites (say 40,000 documents) the reports are displayed approximately 10 times faster.
All of the raw data is still available to other applications via simple ASCII text files. Elsop has also conducted tests to ensure it is a simple matter to load some of these tables into Relational Database Management Systems such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server.
Elsop has incorporated new options for HTML Syntax Checking. LinkScan/QuickCheck continues to offer seamless integration with the Weblint program, but now integration with other programs is also possible. In particular, QuickCheck integrates with either OpenSP or Jim Clark's SP program which means users may perform a full SGML validation against a specific Document Type Definition (DTD).
The Search Documents Report has been enhanced with the ability to display documents that use (or do not use) specific tag types (e.g. APPLET, FORM, META, SCRIPT, etc).
Elsop has added a new Retry External option. When enabled, LinkScan will track all External links that appear to fail due to network related errors (e.g. DNS, connect and timeout errors). These links will be subject to additional retries at the end of the scan. This reduces the number of transient errors reported.
LinkScan 11.0 includes additional options for creating reports that relate to documents "owned by" specific individuals or teams. This version will also warn users about some specific HTML constructs that have recently been found to cause highly inconsistent behavior across different browsers. A new Maxredir command is included which enables users to control the maximum number of HTTP redirections LinkScan will follow when fetching a given URL. The behavior of the Reload/Refresh button on the integrated Web Browser has been improved to ensure that locally cached copies of the page are not used.
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. Existing customers are today using LinkScan with other leading systems such as those from Microsoft, Vignette, Broadvision, Sun Microsystems and IBM.
Cross-platform and cross-product compatibility provides seamless migration for rapidly growing organizations while protecting all existing investments. For larger organizations in particular, this also means direct cost savings in deployment, user training and system administration.
LinkScan operates on all Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X and Unix Systems. Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME and NT 4.0/2000/XP are all fully supported. Compatible Unix systems include AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, all major Linux distributions, and SunOS/Solaris.
Version 11.0 is a free upgrade to users of version 10.0.
Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 11.0 may be downloaded from the company's website at: