This is a discussion page for developing a QualityAssurance process around how we internally evaluate our own work as a project moves toward completion.

See also CrossPlatform, Web Accessible and CodingStandards

Items for evaluation, check off list

• XHTML compliance %
• CSS compliance %
• Accessibility tests %
• Peer code review
  • Drupal best practices
  • Code style %
  • Security checks %
  • CivicActions standards

• Performance profile (see ;ProfilingAndOptimizationTools)

  • Page size / theme size %
  • Backend code (mysql queries, design, etc)
• Contributions back to Drupal
• Broken link check %

Some of these (marked by %) have the potential for some rough-and-ready automated testing that does a 'bare-essentials' check and/or provides a numerical summary of problems found. This will help us more easily spot problem areas. This could perhaps live on a QA vserver (which, incidentally would be a good home for an automated Selenium testing environment) and could be configured to pull together reports automatically (weekly), or on request. http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/ looks like an interesting tool to look at here.