Version 4.6.0
WPSS Validation Tool version 4.6.0
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 4.6.0 contains the following updates and additions
WPSS_Tool
- Update GoC core subject thesaurus to November 2013 (latest) version.
- Reduce the memory requirements to avoid "Out of memory" errors.
Reminder: The WPSS Tool DOES NOT validate HTML5 markup.
Open Data Tool
- Reduce the memory requirements to avoid "Out of memory" errors.
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
- ActiveState Perl 5.14 (does not support 5.16)
- 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 2.7.3
- 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 XP (32 bit), ActiveState Perl 5.14, Python 2.7.3
- Windows XP (32 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18, Python 2.7.3
- Windows XP (32 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18, Python 2.7.6
- Windows 7 (64 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18 (32 bit), Python 2.7.3
The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository