Testing Tools
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The importance of testing documentation was already covered in the TestingTesting section.
The following lists offers some ideas of things you can test for and some suggestions of tools to use:
- Grammar, punctuation, spelling
- Grammarly - AI-powered writing assistant that checks for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
- The built-in spellchecker of your authoring tool.
- Style and readability
- Readable - Analyzes text readability using various readability scores (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, etc.).
- Links and navigation
- Xenu's Link Sleuth - A legacy Windows tool that scans entire websites for broken links. Has the added bonus of working offline too.
- The built-in reports of your authoring tool.
- Compliance and accessibility
- axe Accessibility Checker - Browser extension or CLI that tests web content for accessibility issues.
- WAVE - Web accessibility evaluation tool that provides visual feedback about accessibility problems.
Some of these tool need manual intervention and decisions; in other cases, testing can be automated as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
Remember that you can always write your own custom tests too (either by yourself or with the help of a friendly neighborhood dev or AI tool).
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