Test Suite Index

This page lists a few test documents and test scenarios for the W3C Markup Validator make sure everything works fine after making changes to the validator. If you can think of interesting test cases that aren't on this page, let us know.

This test suite is work in progress. Please submit any issue or idea to the public mailing-list public-qa-dev@w3.org

do not edit this page, it is automatically generated from the validator's automated test suite. If you want to add tests, edit the test suite's catalog instead.

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Non-Automated tests

The following test collections are not managed by the automated test suite, and should be tested by hand on a regular basis

User Interface tests

The following tests do not test the binary "validity" results, but the proper handling of options, errors, various outputs, etc. "validate" links use this instance, with validator.w3.org links added for reference comparison

• validate - with v.w.o - a file: URL
• validate - with v.w.o - /check/referer (deprecated)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check/referer;verbose=1 (unsupported)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check/referer;verbose=1;No200=1 (unsupported)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check?uri=referer (supported, should validate this test collection)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check?uri=referer;verbose=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check?uri=referer&verbose=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
• validate - with v.w.o - /check?uri=referer;verbose=1;No200=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
• validate - with v.w.o - Directory Redirect (should mention the redirect and validate the redirection target
• validate - with v.w.o - script invoked with no parameters (gives an error)
• validate - with v.w.o - uri parameter is empty
• validate - with v.w.o - uri is missing http:// (silent fix)
• validate - with v.w.o - 404 not found
• validate - with v.w.o - 404 not found, with "validate error pages" ON
• validate - with v.w.o - text/plain resource (refuses to validate)
• validate - with v.w.o - httpd on a non-standard port (should be working transparently if :8000 server is running)
• validate - with v.w.o - a resource served as application/atom+xml, should be passed on to the Feed Validator.
• validate - with v.w.o - a resource served as text/css, should be passed on to the CSS Validator.

Bugs and Regression Tests

These should be tied to a bug report on either mailing-list and/or bugzilla whenever possible.

• Long Lines (cause a core)
• A trailing ASCII NUL character (trips up HTML::Parser (not really))
• Undeclared namespace prefixes (colons ":" in element names (trips up parsing of onsgmls output))
• validate - with v.w.o - view: Test of doctype override for SVG document with no doctype, but an XML decl. The doctype should sneak between the XML decl and the root svg start tag. ( 857 - DOCTYPE Override)