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 ====== Email Testing ====== ====== Email Testing ======
  
-Sentori'​s editor provides an automated testing tool which can check your email for broken links, broken merge fields, missing unsubscribe links and more.+There are 2 types of test that need to be carried out before you queue your email.
  
-Whilst the testing tools provided are useful, they do not replace thorough manual testing. We always recommend that you send a test email to a third party to review content, spelling, grammar, and links before you do a live send.+  * Automated Tests - Sentori requies that you run the automated tests (fully described below) before we allow an email to be queued for sending. ​ Tests will need to be rerun if you make an edit to your email. 
 +  * Test Send - Whilst the testing tools provided are useful, they do not replace thorough manual testing. We always recommend that you send a test email to a third party to review content, spelling, grammar, and links before you do a live send.. 
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 +You can also test email content by using a [[email-ab-testing|A/​B Split Test]]. 
 +===== Automated Testing ===== 
 + 
 +Sentori'​s editor provides an automated testing tool which can check your email for broken links, broken merge fields, missing unsubscribe links and more.
  
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-===== Errors ​=====+=====Errors ====
  
 ^ Message ^ Description ^ ^ Message ^ Description ^
 | Subject line cannot be blank | You cannot send an email that doesn'​t have a subject line. | | Subject line cannot be blank | You cannot send an email that doesn'​t have a subject line. |
-| Email has social links but is not Shared | Your email contains social sharing links for your recipients, however you've not allowed it to be shared. Go back to the Connect ​step in the workflow and change this flag. |+| Email has social links but is not Shared | Your email contains social sharing links for your recipients, however you've not allowed it to be shared. Go back to the Content ​step in the workflow and change this flag. |
 | Unsubscribe Link must appear at least once outside of all Targeted Blocks | Targeted Blocks may not appear for all recipients; your unsubscribe link cannot be in one of these. | | Unsubscribe Link must appear at least once outside of all Targeted Blocks | Targeted Blocks may not appear for all recipients; your unsubscribe link cannot be in one of these. |
-| No Unsubscribe Link | We could not find an unsubscribe link in your email. Go back to the Editor and adding ​one choosing the appropriate Link Type. | +| No Unsubscribe Link | We could not find an unsubscribe link in your email. Go back to the Editor and add one choosing the appropriate Link Type. | 
-<​nowiki>​{{AccountUrl}}</​nowiki>​ is not valid in a Slot Non-working system links (e.g. unsubscribe,​ view in browser) were found in your email. ​This might happen if you copy/​pasted ​them from an email you had received. You should remove ​these and recreate ​them, either putting in the direct URL of the website or choosing the appropriate Link Type for system links. |+Copied link found | This might happen if you copy/​pasted ​a link from an email you had received, perhaps as a test. You should remove and recreate ​it, either putting in the direct URL of the website or choosing the appropriate Link Type for system links. |
 | Mailto: link has invalid email address | You have an email link, but its target email address isn't valid. | | Mailto: link has invalid email address | You have an email link, but its target email address isn't valid. |
 | Sentori Webpage doesn'​t exist | Your email links to a Sentori Webpage which does not exist. Perhaps it has been deleted? | | Sentori Webpage doesn'​t exist | Your email links to a Sentori Webpage which does not exist. Perhaps it has been deleted? |
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 | Reply Address is not valid | Your email must have a valid reply address. | | Reply Address is not valid | Your email must have a valid reply address. |
  
-===== Warnings ​=====+==== Warnings ====
  
 ^ Message ^ Description ^ ^ Message ^ Description ^