WPSS validation tool readme

WPSS Validation Tool version 5.0.1

The WPSS Validation Tool provides web developers and quality assurance testers the ability to perform a number of web site and web page validation tasks at one time. The tool crawls a site to find all of the documents then analyses each document with a number of validation tools.

Version 5.0.1 contains the following updates and additions

WPSS_Tool

- Quote path to supporting files in HTML5 validator. Paths with spaces may cause problems.
- Check for non decorative image specifications first when reading configuration file.

Note: The WPSS Tool validates HTML5 markup.

Open Data Tool

WPSS_Tool Installer

The tool installer, WPSS_Tool.exe, does NOT include the required Perl or Python installers (as was the case for previous releases). Perl and Python must be installed on the workstation prior to installing the WPSS_Tool.

Supported versions of Perl include

• Strawberry Perl 5.18 (32 bit) available from http://strawberry-perl.googlecode.com/files/strawberry-perl-5.18.1.1-32bit.msi

Supported versions of Python include

• Python 2.7.6 available from http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/python-2.7.6.msi

The WPSS_Tool has been tested on the following platforms

• Windows 7 (32 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18 (32 bit), Python 2.7.6

The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository

• https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew-wpss/releases/download/5.0.1/WPSS_Tool.exe

See Also:

• System Requirements/Install Instructions
• Uninstall Instructions
• WPSS Validation Tools Page