Say you’re testing an application, like Blogger, that allows the user to type in a URL, and then should have a link show up in the edit window.
You are concerned about getting the URL cut-off the page, or beyond the input constraint, etc, and so you want to do bounds testing on a URL that is real – but also really big.
Here’s one to bookmark:
Ironically enough, on Blogger, the click-through is intact but the line doesn’t wrap – so – at least on FireFox – I can’t see the entire URL.
We call this kind of test the quicktest – Elisabeth Hendrickson even has a cheat sheet for some quick tests to consider for input.
What are /your/ favorite quicktests?
I can’t say I have my favorite quick tests beyond the obvious, but that worksheet is one I’ve loved for a while.
That's a cool URL. It may be long, but it doesn't put into test all the URL options that are available and some application might mess up.
A better testing URL would be something like:
http://user:password@www.someaddress.com:4321/path/query?param=value¶m2=value2%20and%20spaces#bookmark