Blue Lotus Bhakti
Testing and Maintenance Plan

Testing and Maintenance Plan:  The Testing and Maintenance Plan for Blue Lotus Bhakti will include link testing for broken links, reciprocal link testing to ensure partners are displaying Blue Lotus Bhakti’s banner on their sites, performance testing of the site’s responsiveness under simulated heavy user loads and a detailed analysis of the web site’s logs for demographic information.

Schedule:  The tests will be run weekly during off-peak times so as not to degrade performance and interfere with legitimate customers.

Software used: Open STA is a free open source product that allows the tester to record a script of common website interactions and play it back, simulating high volumes of user traffic and measures server performance.  The latest stable release can be downloaded here:  http://www.opensta.org/

Link testing is a necessary feature of any complete maintenance plan.  Links on the Internet change every day and it looks bad to have a site with broken links.  The message it puts out to your customers is that you don’t care about quality or thoroughness.  You also need to stay informed about the status of your banner ad exchanges.   You can download a free copy of Nesox Link Checker here:  http://www.download.com/Nesox-Link-Checker-Free-Edition/3000-2379_4-10427712.html

You can download a trial copy of Link Checker from Mystik Media here:  http://www.mystikmedia.com/link-checkup.asp.  This program allows you to check your reciprocal links to ensure they are being honoured and your banner ads are being displayed on other sites.

AWStats is a free open source program for analyzing web server logs.  No complete maintenance plan should be without detailed demographic analysis of your web traffic.  You can download it here:  http://awstats.sourceforge.net/