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Do you recommend using the "Validate All Visible Text" or not?

Try some experiments with this validation command. Try different pages and see what the command yields.

First off, you'll see that the size of the script file can be rather large if you have a lot of HTML-delivered text on the page. Of course this is OK if what you want to do is to make sure that you are advised when even a single chacter on that page changes. A single change will cause a validation failure. And a singe character changing on a large page may, in some cases, be OK. In which case the command is overkill.

It's probably better to focus the validation on individual words or phrases...perhaps using several of them to account for the key sections of a page.

We generally find that the more focused the validations are the better the test will be. And the less brittle because only those parts of the page that you REALLY want to confirm not having changed are the ones that are checked.

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