Testing Your Help

Display your help volume and try every hyperlink. Any underlined text (solid or dashed underlines) is a hyperlink. Also, test any graphics that are hyperlinks (they are not underlined).

If you are writing application-specific help and you have included any JumpNewView, Man, or AppDefined links, you must test these links from your application. Testing such links from Helpview does not ensure that the links will operate correctly with your application.

Run your application and request help just as a user will, trying each of the entry points. This also verifies that the application is using the correct IDs.

If your application is not ready to use (still under development), you can test each ID by running Helpview for each ID:

   helpview -helpVolume volume -locationId id

Where id is the location ID that you want to test. If helpview displays the correct topic, then the ID is okay.

Physically run your application on various displays to verify that the graphics are acceptable on color, grayscale, and monochrome displays.

Print your help volume to verify that the printed graphics are acceptable. Graphics appear in hardcopy the same as on a monochrome display.

If you are using HP VUE 3.0 or later, you can also simulate other situations by changing the "HP VUE Color Use" in Style Manager's Color dialog.