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HTML comparison tool

  • 02-04-2012 05:34PM
    #1
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,475 ✭✭✭


    Doing a software upgrade on a site, and want to make sure nothing's changed on the frontend. Which basically involves doing the same actions on both the test and live versions of the site, and eyeballing them to make sure nothing's changed.

    Which is a bit monotonous, and obviously I might miss something.

    Any one know any tools that could help? Ideally something where I could set up a test script, and have it run on both versions of the site, compare the HTML returned for each page, and flag differences? Or something that would spider each site and compare the corresponding pages?
    Even if I had to generate two lists URLs manually, and something that would bulk compare the corresponding pages.

    Actually, just realised another requirement - obviously all the links on the test site will reference test.blah.com, while they're live.blah.com on the live site, so substitution would be needed.


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  • #2
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,025 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    There's plenty of diff tools, stuff like Beyond Compare or even Notepad++ would do the job.


  • #3
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,475 ✭✭✭MOH


    Giblet wrote: »
    There's plenty of diff tools, stuff like Beyond Compare or even Notepad++ would do the job.

    The problem is that I need to diff the generated html from the two versions of the site, not the source. For a load of different pages. And preferably in a way that's repeatable once I set it up once.

    So far it's looking like a Selenium script to visit all the pages and save the sources, and Beyond Compare to compare the results.

    I'd just assumed there's be a fairly standard utility for doing the lot.


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