Web测试工具大全
Organization of Web Test Tools ListingThis tools listing has been loosely organized into the categories shown below.Categories are not well-defined and some tools could have been listed in several categories. (Note that the 'Web Site Management Tools' category includes products that contain: site version control tools, combined utilities/tools, server management and optimization tools, and authoring/publishing/deployment tools that include significant site management or testing capabilities.) Suggestions for category improvement are welcome; see bottom of this page to send suggestions. Load and Performance Test Tools |
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Load and Performance Test Tools
Embarcadero Extreme Test - Performance test tool from Embarcadero Technologies. Capabilities include capture/playback/scripting and test probes/agents that work with a wide variety of applications. Load can be generated against HTTP and JDBC, allowing testing of Web sites, Web-based applications, and relational database systems.
WebPartner Test and Performance Center - Test tool from WebPartner for stress tests, load performance testing, transaction diagnostics and website monitoring of HTTP/HTTPS web transactions and XML/SOAP/WSDL web services.
Avalanche - Load testing hardware + software appliance from Spirent Communications. Includes scenario recorder and integrates with Mercury's Loadrunner for more sophisticated user scripts. Supports all major protocols, SSL, forms, dynamic URL's, unique IP addresses, cookies, session ID's and more. Can simulate distributed DOS attacks, concurrent media streams, large numbers of realistic e-mail users, configurable link speed emulation and packet loss rates, HTTP aborts, and more.
QuotiumPro - Web load testing tool from Quotium Technologies SA. Capabilities include: cookies managed natively, making the script modelling phase shorter; HTML and XML parser, allowing display and retrieval of any element from a HTML page or an XML flux in test scripts; option of developing custom monitors using supplied APIs; more.
LoadDriver - Loda test tool from Inforsolutions emphasizes ease of use; directly drives multiple instances of MSIE, rather than simulating browsers. Supports browser-side scripts/objects, HTTP 1.0/1.1, HTTPS, cookies, cache, Windows authentication. Tests can be scriptlessly parameterized with data from text files or custom ODBC data source, for individual userID, password, page to start, think times, data to enter, links to click, cache, initial cache state, etc.
Test Perspective Load Test - Do-it-yourself load testing service from Keynote Systems for Web applications. Utilizes Keynote's load-generating infrastructure on the Internet; conduct realistic outside-the-firewall load and stress tests to validate performance of entire Web application infrastructure.
SiteTester1 - Load test tool from Pilot Software Ltd. Allows definition of requests, jobs, procedures and tests, HTTP1.0/1.1 compatible requests, POST/GET methods, cookies, running in multi-threaded or single-threaded mode, generates various reports in HTML format, keeps and reads XML formatted files for test definitions and test logs. Requires JDK1.2 or higher.
Project OpenLoad - Open source load testing tool from SourceForge.net/Open Source Development Network, distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Command-line tool; runs on Linux and Win32 systems.
httperf - Web server performance/benchmarking tool from HP Research Labs. Provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and measuring server performance. Focus is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance, extensible tool. Available free as source code.
NetworkTester - Tool (formerly called 'NetPressure') from Agilent Technologies uses real user traffic, including DNS, HTTP, FTP, NNTP, streaming media, POP3, SMTP, NFS, CIFS, IM, etc. - through access authentication systems such as PPPOE, DHCP, 802.1X, IPsec, as necessary. Unlimited scalability; GUI-driven management station; no scripting; open API. Errors isolated and identified in real-time; traffic monitored at every step in a protocol exchange (such as time of DNS lookup, time to logon to server, etc.). All transactions logged, and detailed reporting available.
WAPT - Web load and stress testing tool from SoftLogica LLC. Handles dynamic content and HTTPS/SSL; easy to use; support for redirects and all types of proxies; clear reports and graphs.
Microsoft Application Center Test - Tool for stressing Web servers and analyzing performance and scalability problems with Web applications, including ASP, and the components they use. Supports several authentication schemes and SSL protocol for use in testing personalized and secure sites. The programmable dynamic tests can also be used for functional testing. Visual Studio .NET Edition.
OpenLoad - Affordable and completely web-based load testing tool from OpenDemand; knowledge of scripting languages not required - web-based recorder can capture and translate any user action from any website or web application. Generate up to 1000 simultaneous users with minimum hardware.
ANTS - Advanced .NET Testing System from Red Gate Software. A load and stress testing tool focused on .NET web applications, including XML Web Services. ANTS generates multiple concurrent users via recordable Visual Basic .NET scripts and records the user experiences, at the same time performance counter information from Windows system is integrated into the results.
Apache JMeter - Java desktop application from the Apache Software Foundation designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. Originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions; may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). Can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types; can make a graphical analysis of performance or test server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.
TestMaker - Free open source utility maintained by PushToTest.com and Frank Cohen, for performance, scalability, and functional testing of Web application. A framework and utility to build and run intelligent test agents that implement user behaviors and drive the system as users would. Features an XML-based scripting language and library of test objects to create test agents. Includes capability to check and monitor email systems using SMTP, POP3, IMAP protocols. Java-based tool - runs on any platform.
Webhammer - Low-cost utility by Stephen Genusa designed to test Web applications and servers. Configurable 1-16 connections per system CPU.
SiteStress - Remote, consultative load testing service by Webmetrics. Simulates end-user activity against designated websites for performance and infrastructure reliability testing. Can generate an infinitely scalable user load from GlobalWatch Network, and provide performance reporting, analysis, and optimization recommendations.
e-Load Expert - A managed, hosted load testing service from Empirix with unlimited load generation capacity utilizing multiple points-of-presence. Free trial available.
Siege - Open source stress/regression test and benchmark utility; supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Enables testing a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Stress a single URL with a specified number of simulated users or stress multiple URL's simultaneously. Reports total number of transactions, elapsed time, bytes transferred, response time, transaction rate, concurrency, and server response. Developed by Jeffrey Fulmer, modeled in part after Lincoln Stein's torture.pl, but allows stressing many URLs simultaneously. Distributed under terms of the GPL; written in C; for UNIX and related platforms.
Jblitz - Affordable load testing tool from Clan Productions aimed at small web site developers. Each part of a site's functionality can be tested apart or together with up to 500 threads to simulate many users. Can request anything normally addressable through browser, including regular web pages, ASP scripts, JSP scripts, Servlets, CGI scripts etc.
Web Avalanche - Web stress test appliance from with browser-based GUI from Spirent Communications. Tests scalability and robustness of web application infrastructure; can work with existing load testing software. Can maintain over 2 million simultaneous connections, 50,000 HTTP connections per second; supports cookies, forms, SSL, connection latency, noise, graduated load generation, aborts, etc.
WebServer Stress Tool - Web stress test tool from Paessler GmbH handles proxies, passwords, user agents, cookies and ASP-session IDs. Shareware. For Windows. Standard, Professional, and Enterprise versions.
Web Polygraph - Freely available benchmarking tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, and other Web intermediaries. Other features: for high-performance HTTP clients and servers, realistic traffic generation and content simulation, ready-to-use standard workloads, powerful domain-specific configuration language, and portable open-source implementation. C++ source available; binaries avail for Windows.
OpenSTA - 'Open System Testing Architecture' is a free, open source web load/stress testing application, licensed under the Gnu GPL. Utilizes a distributed software architecture based on CORBA. OpenSTA binaries available for Windows.
PureLoad - Java-based performance testing and analysis tool from Minq Software. Includes 'Comparer' and 'Recorder' capabilities, dynamic input data, scenario editor/debugger, load generation for single or distributed sources.
ApacheBench - Perl API for Apache benchmarking and regression testing. Intended as foundation for a complete benchmarking and regression testing suite for transaction-based mod_perl sites. For stress-testing server while verifying correct HTTP responses. Based on the Apache 1.3.12 ab code. Available via CPAN as .tar.gz file.
Torture - Bare-bones Perl script by Lincoln Stein for testing web server speed and responsiveness and test stability and reliability of a particular Web server. Can send large amounts of random data to a server to measure speed and response time of servers, CGI scripts, etc.
WebSpray - Low-cost load testing tool from CAI Networks; includes link testing capabilities; can simulate up to 1,000 clients from a single IP address; also supports multiple IP addresses with or without aliases. For Windows.
eValid - Web test tool from Software Research, Inc that uses a 'Test Enabled Web Browser' test engine that provides browser based 100% client side quality checking, dynamic testing, content validation, page performance tuning, and webserver loading and capacity analysis.
WebPerformance Trainer - Load test tool emphasizing ease-of-use, from WebPerformance Inc. Supports all browsers and web servers; simulates up to 750 users per playback machine at various connection speeds; records and allows viewing of exact bytes flowing between browser and server; no scripting required. Modem simulation allows each virtual user to be bandwidth limited. Can automatically handle variations in session-specific items such as cookies, usernames, passwords, IP addresses, and any other parameter to simulate multiple virtual users. For Windows, Linux, Solaris, most UNIX variants.
WebSizr/WebCorder - Load testing and capture/playback tools from Technovations. WebSizr load testing tool supports authentication, SSL, cookies, redirects. Recorded scripts can be modified manually. For Windows.
FORECAST - Load testing tool from Facilita Software for web, client-server, network, and database systems. Capabilities include proprietary, Java, or C++ scripting; windows browser or network recording/playback. Network traces can also be taken from over 15 third party tracing tools. Virtual user data can be parameterized. Works with a wide variety of platforms.
e-Load - Load test tool from Empirix Software; for use in conjunction with test scripts from their e-Tester functional test tool. Allows on-the-fly changes and has real-time reporting capabilities. Includes script editor with advanced debugging and maintenance capabilities. Works with a wide variety of platforms.
http-Load - Free load test application from ACME Labs to generate web server loads, from ACME Software. Handles HTTP and HTTPS; for Unix.
QALoad - Compuware's QALoad for load/stress testing of web, database, and char-based systems. Integration with other Compuware tools provides an in-depth view by monitoring its operating system, database and network components, as well as the application itself. Works with a variety of databases, middleware, ERP.
Microsoft WCAT load test tool - Web load test tool from Microsoft for load testing of MS IIS servers; other MS stress tools also listed.
Portent Web Load test tool - Loadtesting.com's low-priced web load testing tool. Has minimal hardware requirements. Page validation via matching string in page. Written in Java; multi-platform.
SilkPerformer - Enterprise-class load-testing tool from Segue. Can simulate thousands of users working with multiple protocols and computing environments. Allows prediction of behavior of e-business environment before it is deployed, regardless of size and complexity. SilkPerformer Lite version also available forup to 100 simulated users.
WebART - Medium-cost web test tool from OCLC Inc. includes load testing capabilities; also includes functional and regression testing capabilities, link-checking, and capture/playback and scripting language. Evaluation copy avail. Works with a wide variety of platforms.
Radview's WebLoad - Load testing tool from Radview Software, also available as part of their TestView web testing suite. Capabilities include over 75 Performance Metrics; can view global or detailed account of transaction successes/failures on individual Virtual Client level, assisting in capturing intermittent errors; allows comparing of running test vs. past test metrics. Test scripting via visual tool or Javascript. Wizard for automating non-GUI-based services testing; DoS security testing.
Loadrunner - Mercury's load/stress testing tool for web and other applications; supports a wide variety of application environments, platforms, and databases. Large suite of network/app/server monitors to enable performance measurement of each tier/server/component and tracing of bottlenecks. Integrates with other Mercury testing and monitoring producs.
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Java Test Tools
Introscope - Performance monitoring tool from Wily Technology; presents data in easy-to-use customizable dashboards which enable deep, intuitive views of interrelation between system components and application infrastructure. Monitors applications as soon as installed no coding is needed. Included 'LeakHunter'identifies potential memory leaks. 'Transaction Tracer' can provide detailed tracing of execution paths and component response times for individual transactions in production systems.
GJTester - Java unit, regression, and contract (black box) test tool from TreborSoft. Enables test case and test script development without programming. Test private and protected functions, and server application's modules, without implementing test clients, regression testing for JAVA VM upgrades. Useful for testing CORBA, RMI, and other server technologies as well. GUI interface emphasizing ease of use.
qftestJUI - Record/playback test tool from Quality First Software for creation, execution and management of automated Java/Swing application tests. Includes a natural user interface, scripting capabilities, and a component recognition algorithm that takes into account a variety of attributes. Recorded GUI elements, user actions and associated data are automatically integrated into an editable tree view reflecting the hierarchical structure of the application's GUI. Extensive documentation.
Cactus - A simple open-source test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag Libs, Filters, etc.). Intent is to allow fine-grained continuous testing of all files making up an application: source code but also meta-data files (such as deployment descriptors, etc) through an in-container approach. It uses JUnit and extends it. Typically use within your IDE, or from the command line, using Ant. From Apache Software Foundation.
JUnitPerf - Allows performance testing to be dynamically added to existing JUnit tests. Enables quick composition of a performance test suite, which can then be run automatically and independent of other JUnit tests. Intended for use where there are performance/scalability requirements that need re-checking while refactoring code. By Mike Clark/Clarkware Consulting, licensed under the BSD License.
QStudio for Java - Java code inspection tool from QA Systems allows automation of a major portion of code inspection process, for early detection of software defects and automatic assessment of code quality. Couples advanced static analysis capabilities to ISO 9126 quality standard framework. Integrates with leading Java Development Environments and platforms. Supports customizing existing rules and defining custom rules.
Koalog Code Coverage - Code coverage analyzer for Java applications from Koalog SARL. Includes: in-process or remote coverage computation, capability of working directly on Java method binaries (no recompilation), predefined (XML, HTML, LaTex, CSV, TEXT) or custom report generation, and session merging to allow compilation of overall results for distinct executions. Integrates with Ant and JUnit.
Abbot Java GUI Test Framework - Testing framework by Timothy Wall provides automated event generation and validation of Java GUI components, improving upon the very basic functions provided by the java.awt.Robot class. (Abbot = "A Better 'Bot'). The framework may be invoked directly from Java code or accessed without programming through the use of scripts via 'Costello', a script editor/recorder. Suitable for use both by developers for unit tests and QA for functional testing. Free - available under the GNU Lesser General Public License
JUnit - Framework to write repeatable java unit tests - a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. For use by developers implementing unit tests in Java. Free Open Source Software released under the IBM Public License and hosted on SourceForge. Site includes a large collection of extensions and documentation.
jfcUnit - Framework for developing automated testing of Java Swing-based applications at the UI layer (as opposed to testing at lower layers, for which JUnit may be sufficient). Provides recording and playback capabilities. Also available as plugins for JBuilder and Eclipse. Free Open Source Software from SourceForge site.
Jemmy - A Java library that is used to create automated tests for Java GUI applications. Contains methods to reproduce all user actions which can be performed on Swing/AWT components (i.e. button pushing, text typing, tree node expanding, ...). JemmyTest is a program written in Java which uses the Jemmy API to test applications; it can be used separately as well as together with the NetBeans IDE.
JBench - Freeware Java benchmarking framework to compare algorithms, virtual machines, etc. for speed. Available as binary distribution (including documentation), source distribution, or jar file.
Clover - Code coverage tool for Java from Cenqua. Fully integrated plugin for NetBeans, JBuilder, and other IDE's. Seamless integration with projects using Apache ANT. View coverage data in XML, HTML, PDF, or via a Swing GUI.
TrueJ - Source code audit and metrics tool from BlueBay systems. Fifty different audits and metrics, compiler-style output, integrates with a variety of editors/IDE's, configurable, integrates with build tools for quality gate and reporting, highly scalable.
JCover - Java code test coverage analysis tool from Codework Limited. Works with source or compiled files. Gathers coverage measures of branches, statements, methods, classes, file, package and produces reports in multiple formats. Coverage difference comparison between runs. Coverage API provided.
reView - Java source code visualization tool from Headway Software. Reverse engineer and automatically lay out and view code, components, and dependencies for Java, C, and C++ applications. Shows all dependencies, at all levels and between all levels; method, class, package, application.
Panorama for Java - Visual environment containing six integrated java tools from ISA, Inc. J_SQA for Object-Oriented software quality measurement; J_DocGen for Java code static analysis; J_Structure for Java code structure analysis and diagramming; J_Diagrammer for Java code logic analysis, control flow analysis and diagramming; J_Test for test coverage analysis and test case minimization, etc.; and J_Playback for GUI operation capture and automatic playback.
Java Tool Suite from Man Machine Systems - Includes JStyle, a Java source analyzer to generate code comments and metrics such as inheritance depth, Cyclomatic Number, Halstead Measures, etc; JPretty reformats Java code according to specified options; JCover test coverage analyzer; JVerify Java class/API testing tool uses an invasive testing model allowing access to internals of Java objects from within a test script and utilizes a proprietary OO scripting language; JMSAssert, a tool and technique for writing reliable software; JEvolve, an intelligent Java code evolution analyzer that automatically analyzes multiple versions of a Java program and shows how various classes have evolved across versions; can 'reason' about selective need for regression testing Java classes; JBrowser class browser; JSynTest, a syntax testing tool that automatically builds a Java-based test data generator.
PerformaSure - Low-overhead, user-friendly performance diagnosis tool from Quest Software for distributed J2EE applications. Traces and reconstructs execution path of end-user transactions across all components of a clustered multi-tieer J2EE system, to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks. Hundreds of easily-confugured run-time, OS, and network metrics.
JProbe Developer Suite - Collection of Java debugging tools from Quest Software; includes JProbe Profiler and JProbe Memory Debugger for finding performance bottlenecks and memory leaks, LProbe Coverage code coverage tool, and JProbe Threadalyzer for finding deadlocks, stalls, and race conditions. JProfiler freeware version available.
Krakatau Metrics for Java - Software metrics tool from Power Software includes more than 70 OO, procedural, complexity, and size metrics related to reusability, maintainability, testability, and clarity. Includes Cyclomatic Complexity, Enhanced Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Software Science metrics, LOC metrics and MOOD metrics. Has online advisor for quality improvement.
OptimizeIt - Profiler, thread debugger, and code coverage tool suite from Borland (formerly from VMGear).
Jtest - ParaSoft's Jtest is an integrated, automatic unit testing and standards compliance tool for Java. It automatically generates and executes JUnit tests and checks whether code follows 400 coding standards and can automatically correct for many.
DevPartner Java Edition - Compuware's (formerly NuMega) debugging/productivity tool to detect and diagnose Java bugs and memory and performance problems; thread and event analysis, coverage analysis. Integrates with several Java IDE's.
VTune - Intel's performance tuning tool for applications running on Intel processors; includes Java support. Includes suggestions for optimization techniques.
Sun's Java Test Tools - As of February 4, 2000 Sun discontinued accepting orders for these products.
TCAT for Java - Part of Software Research's TestWorks suite of test tools; code coverage analyzer and code analysis for Java; written in Java.
(Note: some other tools in these listings also handle testing, management, or load testing of java applets, servlets, and applications, or are planning to add such capabilities. Check listed web sites for current information.)
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Link Checking Tools
SiteAnalysis - Hosted service from Webmetrics, used to test and validate critical website components, such as internal and external links, domain names, DNS servers and SSL certificates. Runs as often as every hour, or as infrequent as once a week. Ideal for dynamic sites requiring frequent link checking.
Link Checker Pro - Link check tool from KyoSoft; can also produce a graphical site map of entire web site. Handles HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols; several report formats available. For Windows platforms.
LinkAdvantage SiteAnalyzer - On-the-web low-cost link checker; also checks for HTML syntax errors, server error response codes, and identifies slow-loading web pages.
Web Link Validator - Link checker from REL Software checks links for accuracy and availability, finds broken links or paths and links with syntactic errors. Export to text, HTML, CSV, RTF, Excel. Freeware 'REL Link Checker Lite' version available for small sites. For Windows.
Site Audit - Low-cost on-the-web link-checking service from Blossom Software.
Xenu's Link Sleuth - Freeware link checker by Tilman Hausherr; supports SSL websites; partial testing of ftp and gopher sites; detects and reports redirected URL; Site Map; for Windows.
Linkalarm - Low cost on-the-web link checker from Link Alarm Inc.; free trial period available. Automatically-scheduled reporting by e-mail.
Alert Linkrunner - Link check tool from Viable Software Alternatives; evaluation version available. For Windows.
InfoLink - Link checker program from BiggByte Software; can be automatically scheduled; includes FTP link checking; multiple page list and site list capabilities; customizable reports; changed-link checking; results can be exported to database. For Windows. Discontinued, but old versions still available as freeware.
LinkScan - Electronic Software Publishing Co.'s link checker/site mapping tool; capabilities include automated retesting of problem links, randomized order checking; can check for bad links due to specified problems such as server-not-found, unauthorized-access, doc-not-found, relocations, timeouts. Includes capabilities for central management of large multiple intranet/internet sites. Results stored in database, allowing for customizable queries and reports. Validates hyperlinks for all major protocols; HTML syntax error checking. For all UNIX flavors, Windows, Mac.
CyberSpyder Link Test - Shareware link checker by Aman Software; capabilities include specified URL exclusions, ID/Password entries, test resumption at interruption point, page size analysis, 'what's new' reporting. For Windows.
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HTML Validators
RealValidator - Shareware HTML validator based on SGML parser by Liam Quinn. Unicode-enabled, supports documents in virtually any language; supports XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 3.0, and HTML 2.0 ; extensible - add proprietary HTML DTDs or change the existing ones; fetches external DTDs by HTTP and caches them for faster validation; HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 references included as HTML Help. For Windows.
CSE 3310 HTML Validator - HTML syntax checker for Windows from AI Internet Solutions. Supports wide variety of standards; accessibility (508) checking; uppercase/lowercase converter. Free 'lite' version. For Windows.
(Note: Many of the products listed in the Web Site Management Tools section include HTML validation capabilities.)
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Free On-the-Web HTML Validators and Link Checkers
Dead-Links.com - Free link-checker limited to 25 pages per domain and 150 external documents. Higher limits if site has a link to Dead-Links.com.
WDG HTML Validator - Web Design Group's validator - latest HTML version support, flexible input methods, user-friendly error messages.
Web Page 'Purifier' - Free on-the-web HTML checker by DJ Delorie allows viewing a page 'purified' to HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, or WebTV 1.1. standards.
W3C HTML Validation Service - HTML validation site run by the WWW Consortium (the folks who set web standards); handles one URL at a time; Can choose from among 30 character encoding types, and multiple HTML and XHTML document types/versions.
W3C CSS Validation Service - CSS validation site run by the WWW Consortium (the folks who set web standards); handles one URI at a time; or upload file or validate by direct input.
W3C Link Checker - Link checking service run by the WWW Consortium (the folks who set web standards); configurable. Handles one URL at a time. PERL source also available for download.
NetMechanic - Link checker, HTML validator, Meta Tag/keyword analysis from Keynote Systems. Type in the site URL to check. Free and fee-based.
Bobby - Free service from Watchfire to help web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities. Can test one page at a time against. Can test against multiple standards simultaneously. Tests against W3C-WAI guidelines and US Section 508 guidelines. Downloadable version available for purchase; for Windows.
Doctor HTML - Site with online web page checker by Imagiware. Checks spelling, forms, table structure, form structure, tag usage. Validates links. Free to analyze single page. Use paid SiteDoctor service to analyze entire sites. Downloadable version also available for purchase; runs on multiple OS's.
Weblint Gateway - Site with online HTML validator; somewhat configurable.
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer - On-the-web HTML checker by DJ Delorie; will serve a web page to you with various selectable tags switched on or off; very large selection of browser types; to check how various browsers or versions might see a page.
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PERL and C Programs for Validating and Checking
W3C Link Checker - Link checker PERL source code, via the WWW Consortium (the folks who set web standards); configurable. Handles one URL at a time.
HTML TIDY - Free utility available from SourceForget.net; originally by Dave Raggett. For automatic fixing of HTML errors, formatting disorganized editing, and finding problem HTML areas. Available as source code or binaries.
Big Brother - Freeware command-line link checker for Unix, Windows, by Francois Pottier. Available as source code; binary avaialable for Linux.
LinkLint - Open source Perl program checks local/remote HTML links. Includes cross referenced and hyperlinked output reports, ability to check password-protected areas, support for all standard server-side image maps, reports of orphan files and files with mismatching case, reports URLs changed since last checked, support of proxy servers for remote URL checking. Distributed under Gnu General Public License. Has not been updated in recent years.
MOMspider - Multi-Owner Maintenance Spider; link checker. PERL script for a web spider for web site maintenance; for UNIX and PERL. Utilizes the HTTP 'HEAD' request instead of the 'GET' request so that it does not require retreival of the entire html page. This site contains an interesting discussion on the use of META tags. Not updated in recent years.
HTMLchek for awk or perl - Old but still useful HTML 2.0 or 3.0 validator programs for AWK or PERL by H. Churchyard; site has much documentation and related info. Not updated in recent years.
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Web Functional/Regression Test Tools
JStudio SiteWalker - Test tool from Jarsch Software Studio allows capture/replay recording; fail definitions can be specified for each step of the automated workflow via JavaScript. JavaScript's Document Object Model enables full access to all document elements. Test data from any database or Excel spreadsheet can be mapped to enter values automatically into HTML form controls. HTML-based test result reports can be generated. Shareware for Windows/MSIE.
QEngine - Test tool from AdventNet enables functional testing of Web sites and Web-based applications. Record and playback capability; automatic recording of any Web browser events and translates into an Python editable scrips. Includes Script Editor, Application Map Editor to view and edit the map object properties, Supports Linux and Windows, Mozilla and IE browser.
actiWate - Java-based Web application testing environment from Actimind Inc. Advanced framework for writing test scripts in Java (similar to open-source frameworks like HttpUnit, HtmlUnit etc. but with extended API), and Test Writing Assistant - Web browser plug-in module to assist the test writing process. Freeware.
KUMO Editor - Toolset from Softmorning LTD for creation and editing of web macros and automated web tests. Includes syntax-coloring editor with intellisense, autocomplete, run-time debugging features. Macro recorder transforms any click to a C# directive. Page objects navigator allows browsing of hierarchy of web objects in a page. Enables creation of scenarios from spreadsheets; and loop, retry on error, robust handling of page modifications. Can export created .DLL and .EXE files to enable running web macros on demand and integration into other software frameworks. Multilingual for Asian, eastern and western European languages.
WebInject - Open source tool in PERL for automated testing of web applications and services. Can be used to unit test any individual component with an HTTP interface (JSP, ASP, CGI, PHP, servlets, HTML forms, etc.) or it can be used to create a suite of HTTP level functional or regression tests.
Site Test Center - Functional and performance test tool from Alliance Software Engineering. Has an XML-based scripting capability to enable modifying captured scripts or creating new scripts. Utilizes a distributed testing model and consists of three parts: STC Administrator, STC Master and STC Master Service.
jWebUnit - Open source Java framework that facilitates creation of acceptance tests for web applications. Provides a high-level API for navigating a web application combined with a set of assertions to verify the application's correctness including navigation via links, form entry and submission, validation of table contents, and other typical business web application features. Utilizes HttpUnit behind the scenes. The simple navigation methods and ready-to-use assertions allow for more rapid test creation than using only JUnit and HttpUnit.
SimpleTest - Open source unit testing framework which aims to be a complete PHP developer test solution. Includes all of the typical functions that would be expected from JUnit and the PHPUnit ports, but also adds mock objects; has some JWebUnit functionality as well. This includes web page navigation, cookie testing and form submission.
WinTask - Macro recorder from TaskWare, automates repetitive tasks for Web site testing (and standard Windows applications), with its HTML objects recognition. Includes capability to expand scope of macros by editing and adding loops, branching statements, etc. (300+ commands); ensure robustness of scripts with Synchronization commands. Includes a WinTask Scheduler.
TestCaseMaker/Runner - Test case document driven functional test tool for web applications from Agile Web Development. Maker creates test case documents, and Runner executes the test case document; test case documents are always synchronized with the application. Free including source code.
Canoo WebTest - Free Java Open Source tool for automatic functional testing of web applications. XML-based test script code is editable with user's preferred XML editor; until recording capabilities are added, scripts have to be developed manually. Can group tests into a testsuite that again can be part of a bigger testsuite. Test results are reported in either plain text or XML format for later presentation via XSLT. Standard reporting XSLT stylesheets included, and can be adapted to any reporting style or requirements.
TestSmith - Functional/Regression test tool from Quality Forge. Includes an Intelligent, HTML/DOM-Aware and Object Mode Recording Engine, and a Data-Driven, Adaptable and Multi-Threaded Playback Engine. Handles Applets, Flash, Active-X controls, animated bitmaps, etc. Controls are recorded as individual objects independent of screen positions or resolution; playback window/size can be different than in capture. Special validation points, such as bitmap or text matching, can be inserted during a recording, but all recorded items are validated and logged 'on the fly'. Fuzzy matching capabilities. Editable scripts can be recorded in SmithSript language or in Java, C++ or C++/MFC. 90-day evaluation copy available.
TestAgent - Capture/playback tool for user acceptance testing from Strenuus, LLC. Key features besides capture/playback include automatically detecting and capturing standard and custom content errors. Reports information needed to troubleshoot problems. Enables 'Persistent Acceptance Testing' that activates tests each time a web application is used.
MITS.GUI - Unique test automation tool from Omsphere LLC; has an intelligent state machine engine that makes real-time decisions for navigating through the GUI portion of an application. It can test thousands of test scenarios without use of any scripts. Allows creation of completely new test scenarios without ever having performed that test before, all without changing tool, testware architecture (object names, screen names, etc), or logic associated with the engine. Testers enter test data into a spreadsheet used to populate objects that appear for the particular test scenario defined.
Badboy - Tool from Bradley Software to aid in building and testing dynamic web based applications. Combines sophisticated capture/replay ability with performance testing and regression features. Free for most uses; source code avalable.
SAMIE - Free tool designed for QA engineers - 'Simple Automated Module For Internet Explorer'. Perl module that allows a user to automate use of IE via Perl scripts; Written in ActivePerl, allowing inheritance of all Perl functionality including regular expressions, Perl dbi database access, many Perl cpan library functions. Uses IE's built in COM object which provides a reference to the DOM for each browser window or frame. Easy development and maintenance - no need to keep track of GUI maps for each window. For Windows.
PAMIE - Free open-source 'Python Automated Module For Internet Explorer' Allows control of an instance of MSIE and access to it's methods though OLE automation . Utilizes Collections, Methods, Events and Properties exposed by the DHTML Object Model.
PureTest - Tool from Minq Software AB, includes an HTTP Recorder and Web Crawler which makes it useful for generic verification of HTTP requests and web content checking. The Web Crawler is useful to pro-actively verify the consistency of a static web structure, reporting various metrics, broken links and the structure of the crawled web.
Solex - Web application testing tool built as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE (an open, extensible IDE). Records HTTP messages by acting as a Web proxy; recorded sessions can be saved as XML and reopened later. HTTP requests and responses are fully displayed in order to inspect and customize their content. Allows the attachment of extraction or replacement rules to any HTTP message content, and assertions to responses in order to validate a scenario during its playback.
QA Wizard - Automated functional web test tool from Seapine Software. Advanced object binding reduces script changes when Web-based apps change. Next-generation scripting language eliminates problems created by syntax or other language errors. Includes capability for automated scripting, allowing creation of more scripts in less time. Supports unlimited set of ODBC-compatible data sources as well as MS Excel, tab/comma delimited file formats, and more. Free Demo and Test Script available. For Windows platforms.
HTTP-WebTest - A Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with third-party plugins. Open-source project maintained by Ilya Martynov.
HttpUnit - Open source Java program for accessing web sites without a browser, from SourceForge.net/Open Source Development Network, designed and implemented by Russell Gold. Ideally suited for automated unit testing of web sites when combined with a Java unit test framework such as JUnit. Emulates the relevant portions of browser behavior, including form submission, basic http authentication, cookies and automatic page redirection, and allows Java test code to examine returned pages as text, an XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables, and links. Includes ServletUnit to test servlets without a servlet container.
iOpus Internet Macros - Macro recorder utility from iOpus Inc. automates repetitious aspects of web site testing. Records any combination of browsing, form filling, clicking, script testing and information gathering; assists user during the recording with visual feedback. Power users can manually edit a recorded macro. A command line interface allows for easy integration with other test software. Works by remote controlling the browser, thus automatically supports advanced features such as SSL, HTTP-Redirects and cookies. Can handle data input from text files, databases, or XML. Can extract web data and save as CSV file or process the data via a script. For Windows and MSIE.
MaxQ - Free open-source web functional testing tool from Tigris.org, written in Java. Works as a proxy server; includes an HTTP proxy recorder to automate test script generation, and a mechanism for playing tests back from the GUI and command line. Jython is used as the scripting language, and JUnit is used as the testing library.
TestWeb - Test tool from Original Software Group Ltd. utilizes a new approach to recording/playback of web browser scripts. It analyses the underlying intentions of the script and executes it by direct communication with web page elements. IntelliScripting logic removes the reliance on specific browser window sizes, component location and mouse movements for accurate replay, for easier script maintenance; supports hyperlinks targeted at new instances of browser. Playback can run in background while other tasks are performed on the same machine.
Compuware TestPartner - Automated software testing tool from Compuware designed specifically to validate Windows, Java, and web-based applications. The 'TestPartner Visual Navigator' can create visual-based tests, or MS VBA can be used for customized scripting.
WebKing - Web site functional, load, and static analysis test suite from ParaSoft. Maps and tests all possible paths through a dynamic site; can enforce over 200 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, 508 compliance, WML and XHTML coding standards or customized standards. Allows creation of rules for automatic monitoring of dynamic page content. Can run load tests based on the tool's analysis of web server log files. For Windows, Linux, Solaris.
eValid - Web test tool from Software Research, Inc that uses a 'Test Enabled Web Browser' test engine that provides browser-based client side quality checking, dynamic testing, content validation, page performance tuning, and webserver load and capacity analysis. Utilizes multiple validation methods.
Rational Functional Tester - IBM's (formerly Rational's) automated tool for testing of Java, .NET, and web-based applications. Enables data-driven testing, choice of scripting languages and editors. For Windows and Linux.
e-Test Suite - Integrated functional/regression test tool from Empirix for web applications and services and .NET and J2EE applications; includes site monitoring and load testing capabilities, and record/playback, scripting language, test process management capabilities. Includes full VBA script development environment and options such as javascript, C++, etc. DOM-based testing and validation; 'Data Bank Wizard' simplifies creation of data-driven tests. Evaluation version available.
QuickTest Pro - Functional/regression test tool from Mercury; includes support for testing Web, Java, ERP, etc.
Winrunner - Functional/regression test tool from Mercury; includes support for testing Web, Java, ERP, etc.
Compuware's QARun - QARun for functional/regression testing of web, Java, and other applications. Handles ActiveX, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java beans, and more.
SilkTest - Functional test tool from Segue for Web, Java or traditional client/server-based applications. Features include: test creation and customization, test planning and management, direct database access and validation, recovery system for unattended testing, and IDE for developing, editing, compiling, running, and debugging scripts, test plans, etc.
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Web Site Security Test Tools
Codenomicon HTTP Test Tool - Tool for discovering and eradicating security-related flaws in HTTP implementations via robustness testing. Tool systematically generates very large numbers of protocol messages containing exceptional elements simulating malicious attacks, in order to induce component crashes, hanging, and denial-of-service situations which may affect component/application security. (HTTP implementations may be utilized in web servers, browsers, network appliances, proxies, protocol analyzers, PDAs and cell phones.)
SecurityMetrics Appliance - Integrated software and hardware device includes Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems and Vulnerability Assessment. Operates as a Layer 2 Bridge - no network configuration needed. Automatically downloads latest IDS attack signatures, vulnerability assessment scripts and program enhancements nightly.
Lightning Console - Security management tool from Tenable Network Security for multiple security and network administrators across multiple organizations. Scheduled vulnerability scanning, real-time IDS event analysis, asset management, remediation management of vulnerabilities, network topology discovery and organizational executive reporting for hundreds of administrators via easy-to-use web interface.
SARA - 'Security Auditor's Research Assistant' Unix-based security analysis tool from Advanced Research Corp. Supports the FBI/SANS Top 20 Consensus; remote self scan and API facilities; plug-in facility for third party apps; SANS/ISTS certified, updated bi-monthly; CVE standards support; based on the SATAN model. Freeware. Also available is 'Tiger Analytical Research Assistant' (TARA), an upgrade to the TAMU 'tiger' program - a set of scripts that scan a Unix system for security problems.
Qualys Free Security Scans - Several free security scan services from Qualys, Inc. including SANS/FBI Top 20 Vulnerabilities Scan, network security scan, and browser checkup tool.
Qualys Guard - Online service that does remote network security assessments; provides proactive 'Managed Vulnerability Assessment', inside and outside the firewall,
Perimeter Check - SecurityMetrics 'Perimeter Check' service analyzes external network devices like servers, websites, firewalls, routers, and more for security vulnerabilities which may lead to interrupted service, data theft or system destruction. Includes instructions to help immediately remedy security problems. Can automatically schedule vulnerability assessment of designated IP addresses during low traffic times.
MacAnalysis - Low cost Network Security audit tool from Lagoon Software. Provides detailed reports and vulnerability fix recommendations. MacAnalysis database is updated regularly with a "Vulnerability Update" function to update database of more than 100 new holes per month. Runs on Macintosh, can audit UNIX, Mac, Win servers.
STAT Scanner - Tool from Harris Corp. for security analysis of Windows/UNIX/Linux and other resources. Utilizes comprehensive updatabale vulnerability databases to automatically detect vulnerabilities. Capabilities include: scan and analyze an entire network domain and/or a single machine, select or ignore specific vulnerabilities via configuration files, analysis reports of vulnerabilities with detailed information relating to the name/description/risk level of each vulnerability, eliminate vulnerabilities using recommended solutions with links to related websites and knowledge-base articles, correct vulnerabilities across the network with 'AutoFix' function, retest corrected vulnerabilities immediately, track vulnerability trends via analyses comparing current and previous assessments, customizable security reports for management and technical personnel.
Nessus Security Scanner - Free, open-source remote network security auditing tool, by Renaud Deraison, based on 'never trust the version number' and 'never trust that a given service is listening on the good port'. Nessus is made up of two parts : a server and a client; the server (nessusd) manages the 'attacks', whereas the client is a frontend designed to collect the results. Includes more than 1000 tests in 23 vulnerability categories, and Nessus Attack Scripting Language. Works with a variety of operating systems.
NetRecon - Network vulnerability assessment scanner from Symantec. Scans systems and services on the network and safely simulates common intrusion or attack scenarios. Utilizes a root-cause and path-analysis engine to illustrate exact sequence of steps taken to uncover vulnerabilities, enabling identification of exactly where to correct vulnerabilities to enforce corporate security policies. Learns about network as it scans, adapting penetration strategy based on previous results. Customizable reporting. Can scan a variety of operating systems; product runs on Windows.
Secure-Me - Automated security test scanning service from Broadbandreports.com for individual machines. Port scans, denial-of-service checks, 45 common web server vulnerability checks, web server requests-per-second benchmark, and a wide variety of other tests. Limited free or full licensed versions available.
SAINT - Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool - Security testing tool from SAINT Corporation. An updated and enhanced version of the SATAN network security testing tool. Updated regularly; CVE compatible. Includes DoS testing, reports specify severity levels of problems. Single machine or full network scans. Also available is 'WebSAINT' self-guided scanning service, and SAINTbox scanner appliance. Runs on many UNIX flavors.
NMap Network Mapper - Free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing; designed to rapidly scan large networks or single hosts. Uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (ports) they are offering, what operating system (and OS version) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and many other characteristics. Runs on most flavors of UNIX as well as Windows.
bv-Control for Internet Security - Secutiry scanning tool from BindView, includes capabilities for checking and remediation of security problems of servers, workstations, routers, hubs, printers, and any other devices with an IP address on a network. Scans any device on network regardless of platform.
NetIQ Security Analyzer - Multi-platform vulnerability scanning and assessment product. Systems are analyzed on demand or at scheduled intervals. Automatic update service allows updating with latest security tests. Includes a Software Developer's Kit to allow custom security test additions. For Windows/Solaris/Linux
Foundstone - Vulnerability management software tools from McAfee/Network Associates can provide comprehensive enterprise vulnerability assessments, remediation information, etc. Available as a hardware appliance, software product, or managed service.
CyberCop ASaP - Managed vulnerability assessment service from McAfee/Network Associates. Remotely evaluates security of network perimeter, DMZ and externally visible assets.
CERIAS Security Archive - Purdue University's 'Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security' site (formerly COAST); 'hotlist' section includes extensive collection of links, organized by subject, to hundreds of security information resources and tools, intrusion detection resources, electronic law, publications, etc. Also includes an FTP site with a large collection of (mostly older) security-related utilities, scanners, intrusion detection tools, etc.
InternetScanner - Tool from Internet Security Systems, provides automated vulnerability assessment for measuring online security risks. Performs scheduled and selective probes of network services, servers, desktops, operating systems, routers, firewalls, etc. to uncover and report systems vulnerabilities that might be open to attack. Provides flexible risk management reports, prepares remediation advice, trend analyses and comprehensive data sets to support policy enforcement. Similar managed service also available.
SATAN web security testing tool - Security Administration Tool for Analyzing Networks - for UNIX. An early security assessment tool, still of interest for historical/learning purposes. Includes tutorial that explains problems found, what its impact could be, and what can be done about it: correct errors in a configuration file, install vendor bug fixes, use other means to restrict access, or disable service. Includes some links to related information. See listing above for 'SAINT', a newer, enhanced version of this tool.
Top 75 Security Tools - Listing of 'top 75' network security tools from survey by Insecure.org. (Includes various types of security tools, not just for testing.)
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External Site Monitoring Services
Lyncos Monitoring Service - Service from Lyncos remotely monitors web sites and Internet services for availability (http, https, smtp, ftp, pop, nntp, tcp). Notifications sent via email and SMS. Monitoring centers in U.S. and Europe. Free service also available, with limited features.
Host Tracker - Site monitoring service from Host Tracker; monitor an unlimited number of resources, distributed monitoring points, possible monitoring of CGI scripts’ operation, keyword presence control, can specify keywords by regular expressions, unlimited number of addresses for server error notifications, historical statistics.
AppMonitor - Transactional application monitoring service from Webmetrics. Simulates defined web transactions, such as customer logins and purchase order fulfillment, up to every five minutes to verify application availability and performance. Service includes full-page download of all page objects, breakdown of DNS, first byte and transfer times at various baud rates, alerting, performance reporting and benchmark comparisons. Also available is 'SiteMonitor' service for non-transactional websites.
Dotcom-Monitor - Web site monitoring and load testing services utilize multiple worldwide locations. Checks content and response times; provides reporting and notifications. Free 'Lifetime Lite' monitoring service available.
Vertain Monitoring Service - Service from Vertain Software verifies that web site is up and running and that users can complete multi-page transactions. Free service for up to six tests per day.
SilkVision - Service from Segue Software, Inc., actively monitors and evaluates the health of a site's live applications, providing clear visibility into their performance, availability, and accuracy.
AlertBot - Monitoring service from InfoGenius, Inc. tests website availablity, performance, and alerts webmaster of downtime. Also provides ftp, http, pop3, snmp, https, smtp, ip, and dns server monitoring. Free 15 day trial.
WebSitePulse - Remote web site and server monitoring service with instant alerts and real time reporting. Simulates end-user actions from multiple locations around the globe. Web transaction monitoring available. Free basic service available.
SystemIsDown.com - Service from DNSoft Inc. provides free and low cost system monitoring and instant alert service. Monitors variety of systems such as web sites, DNS, Mail servers, etc.
1stMonitor - Site monitoring service notifies when a web site is down or new content has been posted. Easy and simple to use. Email notification. Weekly and monthly reports; instant setup.
SiteTechnician - Service of SiteTechnician LLC, identifies broken links, analyzes accessibility, reports on search engine optimization, monitors page load times and provides eight reports to help manage changes to website content over time.
PingALink - Web site monitoring service from PingALink LLC; remotely monitors websites and other Internet protocol servers for availability and performance issues. Sends detailed error codes via pager, email, ICQ, etc. RFC compliant protocol checks assure valid monitoring. Extensive reporting. 30 day fully functional free trial.
AlertSite - Web site monitoring tools and services to ensure website is available and performing optimally. Immediate notification of problems via e-mail, pager, cell, or SMS. Comprehensive reporting. Free trial.
elkMonitor - Service from Elk Fork Technologies for websites and other Internet servers; monitors availability and performance. Utilizing multiple test servers located on various Internet backbones, elkMonitor can alert users when sites or servers are unavailable or performing poorly. Alerts via email, pager or SMS alert.
WebPartner - Web load testing, stress testing and transaction diagnostic services from WebPartner for web applicaitons and services. UI works best with MSIE.
AlertMeFirst - Service from AlertMeFirst.com reports on the performance and availability of a web site from customer's perspective; including experience with mail server, proxy server, transaction server, databases, etc. Flexible design allows changes to monitoring profile at any time and payment is required only for services used each day.
PureAgent - Service from Minq Software that monitors response times from the agent to a server, by replaying transactions at specified intervals. This includes static and dynamic web applications as well as other server applications.
Spot-Check - Web site monitoring service from QualGuard to test how dial-up users experience a web site. Checks server response, page download time; takes into account location, ISP, and 'last-mile' phone line quality.
EControl Portal - Checks periodically on the availability, performance, and content of website, as well as e-mail, file transfer, and authorization processes; includes extended logging and dynamic statistical charting.
Dotcom-Monitor - External website monitoring/alerting service from Dana Consulting. Monitoring locations worldwide. Supports full-cycle sequential transactions; 'macro recorder' capabilities for setting up monitoring of complicated web site processes such as online ordering; monitoring of web sites, email services, FTP services, DNS and routers monitoring; includes a wide variety of online and downloadable reporting tools.
SiteGuardian - Site monitoring solution provides 24x7 performance Configururable notification method and intervals. Free 30 day trial.
FarSight - Service from Empirix monitors site in real time using data from a large number of nodes across multiple backbones worldwide. Also available is 'OneSight' service which provides a holistic view of an entire web infrastructure to optimize performance.
Keynote - Suite of hosted Web performance management solutions from Envive. Includes 'Prophecy', a 24x7 load testing service, and Sensory', a performance monitoring service that proactively monitors a site giving real time results.
SiteAngel - Service from BMC Software continuously simulates and measures end-to-end customer web site experience. Compare site’s performance and availability to user-defined goals.
WatchDog - Online website tracking and monitoring services geared to small business web sites. Provides uptime and load time reports, downtime alerts, etc. Distributed monitoring from five U.S. sites.
Agilent FireHunter - Agilent's service for monitoring, diagnosis, and management of internet services; including performance, fault detection, reporting. Supports a variety of platforms.
eValid - Monitoring service from Software Research, Inc.; provides for email and/or pager/beeper alert service, plus customer access on eValid WebSite to historic testing and monitoring data.
SiteScope - Mercury's hosted Web-based monitoring service; agentless monitoring solution designed to ensure the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures including servers, operating systems, network devices, network services, applications.
Visual eWatcher - Suite of network and site performance, availability, and other monitoring services from Visual Networks; monitoring from multiple locations.
Keynote Services - Suite of various hosted services includes Testing and Tuning services, Measurement and Monitoring services, and Performance Management services.
SiteSeer - Monitoring service utilizes monitoring locations on major Internet backbones. Tests online transactions and associated processes; receive notification of errors via e-mail or pager; verify contents including specific text or test to ensure specific text not present (i.e., an error message), identify local versus global access problems, daily and weekly customized management reports.
ServerCheck - NetMechanic's on-the-web tool checks a web server's performance during a set time period; the resulting report sent by e-mail includes comparisons to other servers. Site also includes a link-checker, HTML validator, spell checker.
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Web Site Management Tools
(This section includes products that contain: site version control tools, combined utilities/tools, server management and optimization tools, and authoring/publishing/deployment tools that include significant site management or testing capabilities.)
Maxamine Knowledge Platform - Integrated site managment tool combining site content, structure and visitor traffic data into one searchable data base, to enable detailed analysis of what is going on behind the scenes of Web operations. Desktop product for multiple platforms, and online service available.
RedDot CMS - Web content managment system from RedDot Solutions includes modules such as SmartEdit; Asset Manager to securely centralize images; Site Manager to create and manage your web site; Web Compliance Manager to manage integrity and accessibility, and more.
Cuevision Network Monitor - Monitoring tool from Cuevision for monitoring website, server, services, applications, and network; capabilities include notifications via email, net send, and popup, restart apps and services, etc. For Windows.
GFI Network Server Monitor - Server management tool checks network and servers for failures and fixes them automatically. Alerts via email, pagers, SMS; automatically reboot servers, restart services, run scripts, etc. Freeware version of GFI Network Server Monitor is also available; includes modules to check HTTP and ICMP/ping for checking availability of HTTP and HTTPS sites.
Web Site Monitoring - Performance Monitoring - Free open-source website monitoring application in PERL; sends email notification if site is slow or down.
ContentStudio - E-catalog management tool from TechniCon with Windows Explorer-type interface with drag and drop functionality; eliminates need for programmers and special production staff to maintain catalogs; Legacy-to-Web Tools can "bulk-load" online catalog from legacy product data. Capabilities include defining intra-configuration rules, such as option compatibilities on a single product; inter-configuration rules, such as spatial relationships between products, and more.
FTP Assistant for Webmasters - FTP client from Byteway.com for web site updating; additional features include manual or customizable automated control, link verification, HTML and GIF optimization, site cleanup, drag-and-drop, upload resuming, scheduler, and more.
TestWEB Monitor - Web site monitoring tool from Original Software checks 5 or more URL's up to every 30 seconds. Receive instant notification by email whenever one of the sites is unavailable. Free trial download available.
SpinPike - Flexible and scalable content management system from SavvyBox. Usability-tested administration interface, special installer easily installs the system on your server, high-level functions save template coding time, WYSIWYG editor.
Constructioner - Website development software with integrated content management system from Artware Multimedia GmbH. Design/administrate database connected PHP web applications in combination with individual webdesign. Includes: Ready-to-use Backoffice, Content and Table Management (WYSIWYG-Editor), User Administration, Multilingualism, Dynamic Menu, Message Board, PHP-Code Insertion, Statistical Reports, Database Backup, Search. All can be integrated without writing code.
AdvantageCMS - Content management service from CrownPeak Technology, which hosts the management system application and the client's administrative interfaces and pushes the final assembled pages to client Web servers. CrownPeak thereby provides integration into existing Web sites without the cost and hassle of installing, integrating, and maintaining complex CMS software.
WebLight - HTML validator and link checking tool from Illumit LLC. Free for use on small sites, low cost for large sites. Works on multipleplatforms.
Tonic - Comprehensive web site management/monitoring/test tool from Tonic Software; manages all components across complex Web-enabled applications by measuring and monitoring performance, verifying content and functional integrity, load testing, detecting, reporting and fixing problems before users see them. Supports: XML, JavaScript, SOAP, HTTPS, SMTP.
Trellian FTP - Low-cost site upload and FTP mirror management utility from Trellian Internet Software. Automatically keeps track of all changes to website and only uploads new, or changed files; can exclude specific files or entire directories from transfer; batch transfer feature automates the uploading of multiple web sites. For Windows.
Watchfire WebXM - Content analysis tool from Watchfire analyzes sites for slow loading pages, purchase checkouts, searchability, and broken links, searchability and accessibility; privacy compliance; and website standards compliance.
Documentum - Enterprise content management product - capabilites/support include scalability, security, business process automation, globalization, XML-content-based multi-channel delivery, support for more than 50 document formats, integration with a variety of servers, authoring tools, etc.
Collage - Content management tool from Merant; browser-based, scalable content management platform for content contributors distributed across an organization. Works with content from any platform or application. Enables collaboration, version control, activity tracking, administration, templates, styles, XML-based data templates, approval workflow, multi-lingual support, more. Runs with a variety of platforms, web servers, and DB servers.
FlexWindow - Tool from Digital Architects, enables users to update their web site via e-mail. Update news flashes, notifications, advertisements, product info, stories, prices, and more. Use any e-mail client capable of producing HTML to format your content or use HTML tags in a plain text e-mail. Easy to install, simply create an account and paste one line of javascript into your pages. Basic accounts are free.
Alchemy Eye - System management tool continuously monitors server availability and performance. Alerts by cell phone, pager, e-mail, etc. Can automatically run external programs, and log events.
Web500 CMS - Web content management and site maintenance solution from Web500. Add-on modules allow capabilities such as WAP, e-commerce, payment processing, customer relationship management, and more.
HTML Rename - Site Migration/Batch processing tool from Expandable Language that enforces file naming conventions (case, length, invalid chars), renaming the files to match the convention, then correcting the links to those files automatically. Eliminates problems encountered when moving files between Windows, Mac, and UNIX systems and publishing to CD-ROM.
IP Check - Server monitoring tool from Paessler GmbH. Alerts webmasters if a webserver is not working correctly because the web service is down, CGI scripts return errors or the SQL server is not reachable. It can constantly monitor any number of servers and ports. Shareware. For Windows.
WebFeedback - 'Web Decision Support System' by Liebhart Systems; combines site mapping, link checking, and log analysis to provide an interactive graphical depiction of a web site's characteristics. For Windows, Mac, UNIX.
Stellent Content Management System - Content management tool from Stellent, Inc. 'Stellent Content Server' component gives content contributors ability to automatically publish content to Web sites from native desktop applications or templates, and can automatically convert standard business content, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio, to Web and wireless formats. 'Stellent Content Publisher' component extracts content from Content Server, translates it into desired output format, and publishes resulting Web pages to Web server or back to the content server for secure management and version control. Also includes full Web site production capabilities, including workflow of a staged site, Webmaster collaboration and contributor preview capabilities.
SiteMapper - Web site mapping tool from Trellian Software. Also validates internal and external links, and produces indexed listing of site. For Windows.
Rhythmyx Content Manager - Web content management product based on native XML and XSL technologies; content development, publishing, version control, and customizable workflow.
Content Management Server - Windows based content mgmt tool from Microsoft (formerly 'nResolution' from nCompass Labs). Enterprise web content management system that enables quickly and efficiently building, deploying, and maintaining highly dynamic web sites.
Broadvision Publishing Center - Content and publishing management tool from Broadvision; part of its collection of E-business management tools Web-based interface for managing distributed, collaborative online content development; allows a distributed team of non-technical content experts to manage every aspect of site content, including creation, editing, staging, production, and archiving.
Blue Martini Customer Relationship System - E-business management system from Blue Martini Software; consists of multiple modules providing comprehensive e-business solution; content management, web site management, call center, tools integration and workflow, customer management, data mining, etc.
HP OpenView Internet Services - Monitors/manages internet services; integrates with other OpenView products to provide a variety of management and monitoring services and capabilities.
Content Server - Integrated suite of e-business applications from Divine Inc. (Formerly from Open Market Inc.) for web content management and delivery and commerce management; targeted to large enterprise systems.
Participant Server - Web site management tool from Divine Inc. (formerly from EPrise Inc.), for content and workflow management, access and version control, business rule management within a single platform. For companies wanting to manage and streamline decentralized and informal online publishing processes.
HTML-Kit - Full-featured text editor for HTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Includes GUI for W3C's HTML Tidy allowing user to view automatically corrected code in the output window for side-by-side comparison. Validate XML documents using its DTD and/or check for well-formedness. Seamless integration with the CSE HTML Validator.
IBM Content Manager - IBM's suite of products for enterprise content management, security, migration, and access control solution. For large collections of scanned images, facsimiles, electronic office documents, XML and HTML files, computer output, audio, video, etc. For multiple platforms and AIX, AS/400, OS/390, Windows.
Rational Suite Content Studio - Combines software management tools from Rational with Vignette's content management software. For web development team management, content and code version control, deployment control, and management. Integrates content and code control. (Note: Rational is now a part of IBM)
eXpressroom - Suite of Java-based cross-platform content/code/collaboration management tools from StarBase, stores assets as XML-formatted documents. Lets users work the way they want to work, use tools they want to use, and define the workflow processes they want to follow; maximizes Web Site control and eliminatez the Webmaster bottleneck.
WebCheck - Windows application that runs in background and periodically checks a site for availability and correctness; searches for keywords; provides notification by displaying a message or sending an e-mail. Requires MSIE.
WS_FTP Pro - Web publishing tool from Ipswitch; manage, upload, and update websites; automatically resume interrupted transfers; support more than 50 host file systems; drag-and-drop files; for Windows.
A1Monitor - Utility from A1Tech for monitoring availability of web servers. Capabilities include notification by email and automatic reboot of web server. For Win95/98/2000/NT
NetLoad - For synchronizing remote web sites with local web files; from Aerosoft Australia. Transfers only new and updated files, removes old files and directories, and creates entire directory structures on your server to match those of your PC. For Win95/98/NT
WebLog - In addition to logging capabilities, checks search engine placement including position, page, rank on page, click paths. Enhanced logging utilizing custom generated script uploaded to host; includes 'anti-caching technology' ensuring more reliable logging by blocking caching of site's pages by visitor's browsers; 'Active Protect MetaTags' allowing only search engine spiders to see front-page meta-tags; 'Active Protect Images' to prevent other sites from "borrowing" images; and 'Active Deny Access' to prevent particular IP addresses from accessing web site. From Monocle Solutions. Requires UNIX, PERL, SSI, on web server and Windows client
AgentWebRanking - Freeware tool from AADSoft to monitor site's search engine position, improve search engine ranks, submit URL's. Searches top engines for keywords; can specify search depth. Also has keyword count for pages vs competitor's pages; auto or manual submit of URL's to search engines, meta tag creator. Requires MSIE and Windows.
WebSite Director - Web-content workflow management system with browser-based interface includes configurable workflow management, e-mail submission of web content, and e-mail notifications; allows defining and applying existing workflow and approval rules to web content management process. For Windows, UNIX.
Equalizer - Load balancing server appliance and site management tool from Coyote Point Systems. Web based interface for load balancing administration, server failure detection, real-time server monitoring of server response time, number of pending requests, etc.
WebTrends Analysis Suite - Web site management tool from NetIQ includes log analysis, link analysis and quality control, content management and site visualization, alerting, monitoring and recovery, proxy server traffic analysis and reporting. For Windows.
HotMetalPro - SoftQuad's web development tool for web site authoring/development/management, includes capabilities for link management, site mapping. For Windows.
XMetal - SoftQuad's XML development tool for XML-based web site authoring and validation. Supports DOM level 1 and most of text presentation parts of CSS1 and CSS2, COM and ActiveX, and more. Includes a 'Database Import Wizard', and can automatically convert output to CALS or HTML table models or to XML; Supports OASIS TR 9502 version of CALS tables as well as HTML 4.0 tables. For Windows.
Unicenter TNG w/Web Management Option - Site management application from Computer Associates includes access and security control, monitoring, logging, metrics, server management, network management. For MS and Netscape web servers.
Interwoven Team Site - Web development, version control, access control, and publishing control tool; works with many servers, OS's, and platforms.
Cold Fusion - Allaire's web development environment includes integrated test web server for immediate site testing, automatic database query tester, version control; utilizes their 'ColdFusion Markup Language'. Evaluation version available. For Windows/Linux/HP-UX/Solaris.
Site/C - 'Set-and-forget' utility for periodic server monitoring for web server connection problems, link problems; e-mail notifications, logging capabilities. Shareware; for Win95/NT.
Blueprint - Web site analysis and management tool, includes link checker, site mapper, reporting, statistics, integrated ftp and uploading. For Windows.
PowerMapper - From Electrum Multimedia; for customizable automated site mapping, HTML validation, link checking. Evaluation copy available; requires Windows and MSIE.
SiteScope - Freshwater Software's product for site monitoring and maintenance. Runs on servers and monitors server performance, links, connections, logs, etc.; scheduled and on-demand reporting; provides notifications of problems. Includes published API for creating custom monitors. Monitors mimic users end-to-end actions. For Windows or Unix.
HTML PowerTools - HTML validator, global search-and-replace. Date stamper, spell checker, Meta manager, image tag checker, HTML-to-Text converter, customizable reports. Link checker. Validates against various HTML versions, NS and MSIE extensions; has updateable rulebase. From Talicom. Free 30-day evaluation copy. For Windows.
HTML Grinder - Matterforn Media's Web site mgmt/authoring software with multi-file find and replace, filename management, TOC-builder, more. Evaluation version available. For Mac.
COAST WebMaster - Site management tool from Coast Software, Inc.; for web site file management, link checking, site version comparisons, page download timing and estimating, server log file reporting. Map and test forms and other dynamic content; check content standards, restructure directories and files and automatically update links. Includes HTML editor and file manager, page display verification, global search and replace, integrated ftp capabilities. Evaluation copy available. Can handle large sites.
OpenDeploy - Interwoven's configurable control system for deploying from development to production environments. Includes automated deployment, security, and encryption capabilities. Rollback capabilities if used in conjunction with their TeamSite product.
TeamSite - Interwoven's collaborative web site production control, administration, and management product for enterprise-wide internet and intranet projects. Includes version control, browser interface, comparison capbilitie, file edit merging, variable lock controls. Server side compatible with many available web servers.
Content Management Server - Vignette Corporation's product for web site collaborative content, publishing, management, and maintenance. Support for managing content stored in databases, XML repositories, and static files. Supports a wide variety of web attributes, databases, API's, and servers.
Table of Contents - 'Table of Contents' web site mgmt. tool - creates framed HTML lists of local files. Indexes and shows html files in one frame, view contents in another; can specify which types of file are indexed, and alphabetically sort the entries. Shareware for Windows. Evaluation copy avail.
MKS Web Integrity - MKS' 'Web Integrity' web object management system for web site maintenance and management; uses web-server-based repository and a java client interface; revision control, publishing control and security, audit trails. Works with Windows and Netscape or MSIE, and several Netscape and Microsoft web servers on Windows and Unix.
MS Visual Source Safe - Microsoft's software version control tool; includes site change management, web link checker, site mapping; can integrate with MS FrontPage. For Windows. Via 3rd parties also available for Mac and UNIX; add-on also available for remote Source Safe access via Internet.
Microsoft FrontPage - Microsoft's 'Front Page' web site authoring and site management tool; includes site management capabilities, link checking, etc. Evaluation copy available.
HAHTSite - Haht Software's integrated web site development and management environment, for site authoring, publishing control, team development, link and object management, debugging.
HomeSite - Allaire's web site authoring/validator tool; page in screen is validated with results displayed below; error info is linked to error in html; file uploading; link checker; thumbnail viewer. For Windows.
NetObjects Team Fusion - Site authoring/management tool. Visual site structure editor, layout editor, graphics management, staging/publishing control. Evaluation version available. For Windows.
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Log Analysis Tools
HTTPD Log Analyzers list - Includes categories for Access Analyzers, Agent Analyzers, Referrer Analyzers, Error Analyzers, Other Log Analyzers. Most extensive log analysis tool listing on the net; the access analyzers list includes more than 100 listed with short descriptions of each, organized by platform.
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Other Web Test Tools
TestGen - Free open-source web test data generation program that allows developers to quickly generate test data for their web-services before publicly or internally releasing the web service for production.
EngineViewer and SiteTimer - Free basic services: EngineViewer - reports on how a search engine may view a webpage, from how it breaks down the HTML, to which links it extracts, how it interprets page's robot exclusion rules and more. SiteTimer service - Find out how long it takes various connection types to get a page, check all the graphical links to ensure they're correct, examine server's HTTP headers, more.
Fiddler - An HTTP Debugging tool by Eric Lawrence. Acts as an HTTP Proxy running on port 8888 of local PC. Any application which accepts an HTTP Proxy can be configured to run through Fiddler. Logs all HTTP traffic between between computer and the Internet, and allows inspection of the HTTP data, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem. Free, for Windows.
FREEping - Free ping software utility from Tools4ever which will ping all your 2003-XP-2000-NT servers (or any other IP address) in freely-definable intervals. Will send a popup when one of the servers stops responding.
IP Traffic Test and Measure - Network traffic simulation and test tool from ZTI Corp. can generate TCP/UDP connections using different IP addresses; data creation or capture and replay; manage and monitor throughput, loss, and delay.
SetSim Pro - Northern Webs' free on-the-web meta tag checker; includes additional search-engine-related capabilities.
VisitorVille - Site traffic monitoring tool from World Market Watch Inc. that depicts website visitors as animated characters in a virtual village; users can watch their web traffic as if they're watching a movie.
FunnelIT - Free utility from ByStorm Software helps streamline test reporting and analysis by gathering Windows platform environment/configuration information (running tasks, loaded modules, virtual memory settings, OS version, component details, processor information, physical memory information, etc.) in small text files. Available as an executable intended to leave no footprint. Full-featured version (not free) has configurable reporting, and also allows gathering TCP/IP Address/Network Information, Network Adaptor Information, Services information, Installed Software and Installed XP Updates, Drive Free Space/Size/Used info, etc.). Also allows comparisons among results from multiple systems.
Sandra - 'System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant' utility from SiSoftware. Provides large variety of information about a Windows system's hardware and software. Includes CPU, mainboard, drives, ports, processes, modules, services, device drivers, ODBC sources, memory details, environment settings, system file listings, and much more. Provides performance enhancing tips, tune-up wizard, file system and memory bandwidth benchmarking, more. Reporting via save/print/fax/email in text, html, XML, etc. Free, Professional, and other versions available in multiple languages.
Path Application Manager - Application Monitoring and management tool from Winmoore, Inc. Uses pattern recognition technology to peer deep inside customized or COTS applications, analogous to running an MRI scan. Enables enhancement of QA, testing, and troubleshooting with code coverage capabilities.
RAMPT - Section 508 and W3C Accessibility Guidelines tool from Deque Systems that automates analysis and remediation of non-compliant web functionality. Written in Java, targeted for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Also available is low-cost RAMPLite for validation only, and RAMPP ARC for automatic remediation of non-compliant HTML with minimal customization.
Browser Cam - Service for web developers and testers that creates screen captures of web pages loaded in any browser, any version, any operating system. Allows viewing of web page appearance on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, in most versions of every browser ever released.
Dummynet - Flexible tool developed by Luigi Rizzo, originally designed for testing networking protocols, can be used in testing to simulate queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath effects. Can be used on user's workstations, or on FreeBSD machines acting as routers or bridges.
HTTP Interceptor - A real-time HTTP protocol analysis and troubleshooting tool from AllHTTP.com. View all headers and data that travel between your browser and the server. Split-screen display and dual logs for request and response data. Interceptor also allows changing of select request headers on-the-fly, such as "Referrer" and "User Agent".
SpySmith - Simple but powerful diagnostic tool from Quality Forge; especially useful when testing web sites and web-based applications. It allows the user to peek inside I.E. Browser-based Documents (including those without a 'view source' command) to extract precise information about the DOM elements in an HTML source. SpySmith can also spy on Windows objects. Free 90-day trial; low cost.
Co-Advisor - Tool for testing quality of protocol implementations. Co-Advisor can test for protocol compatibility, compliance, robustness, security, and other quality factors. Co-Advisor's current focus is on HTTP intermediaries such as firewalls, filters, caching proxies, and XML switches. Other info: runs on FreeBSD packages, Linux RPMs, Windows (on-demand); includes well as source code and on-line access.
PcapTrace - Packet-capture tool with GUI; captures and displays packet data between local client and specified web server. Can log captures to disk. For Windows; freeware.
tcpTrace - Tool acts as a relay between client and server for monitoring packet data. Works with all text-based IP protocols. For windows; freeware
ProxyTrace - Tool acts as a proxy server to allow tracing of HTTP data; can be used by setting browser to use it as a proxy server and then can monitor all traffic to and from browser. Freeware.
tcptrace - Tool writtn by Shawn Ostermann for analysis of TCP dumpfiles, such as those produced by tcpdump, snoop, etherpeek, HP Net Metrix, or WinDump. Can produce various types of output with info on each connection seen such as elapsed time, bytes, and segments sent and received, retransmissions, round trip times, window advertisements, throughput, and various graphs. Available for various UNIX flavors, for windows, and as source code; freeware.
AccVerify - Add-on tools from HiSoftware Inc. for Mercury's WinRunner and QuickTest, for web site accessibility testing.
MITS.Comm - Tool from Omsphere LLC for simulating virtually any software interface (internal or external). Allows testing without pitfalls associated with live connections to other systems (TCP/IP, MQSeries, Ethernet, FTP, etc). Allows developers to test down to the unit level by simulating the internal software interfaces (message queues, mailboxes, etc.) Tool can learn what request/response scenarios are being tested for future tests and can work with any protocol, any message definitions, and any network.
XML Conformance Test Suite - XML conformance test suites from W3C and NIST; contains over 2000 test files and an associated test report (also in XML). The test report contains background information on conformance testing for XML as well as test descriptions for each of the test files. This is a set of metrics for determining conformance to the listed W3C XML Recommendation.
Certify - Test automation management tool from WorkSoft, Inc. For managing and developing test cases and scripts, and generating test scripts. For automated testing of Web, client/server, and mainframe applications. Runs on Windows platforms.
HiSoftware AccVerify - AccVerify is a tool designed to test a web site to verify that it is accessible to those with disabilities. Works for both the W3C standards and the 508 standards which Federal Government Websites must meet by law. It can crawl a site and report errors; can also programmatically fix most common errors found. Runs on Win systems.
Web Optimizer - Web page optimizing tool from Visionary Technologies intelligently compresses web pages to accelerates web sites without changing site's appearance. Removes unnecessary information in HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript pages and includes GIF and JPEG optimizer techniques.
HTML2TXT - Conversion utility that converts HTML as rendered in MS Internet Explorer into ASCII text. The HTML2TXT ActiveX control was developed with programmers in mind; simple and consistent interface. Included with software are examples of using the control from within Visual Basic, Visual C++, and HTML.
Team Remote Debugger - Debugging tool from Spline Technologies allows tracing of any number of code units of any kind ( ASP, MTS, T-SQL, COM+, ActiveX Exe, DLL, COM, Thread, CFML ), written in any language ( ASP, VB, VC++, Delphi, T-SQL, VJ, CFML ) residing on multiple shared and dedicated servers at the same time, without ever attaching to process. Remote code can pass messages and dialogs directly to your local machine via Team Remote Debugger component, and developers can then debug their respective code independently of one another no matter if the code units reside on the same servers or on different servers or on any combination thereof.
Datatect - Test data generator from Banner Software generates data to a flat file or ODBC-compliant database; includes capabilities such as scripting support that allows user to write VBScripts that modify data to create XML output, data generation interface to Segue SilkTest, capability to read in existing database table structures to aid in data generation, wide variety of data types and capabilities for custom data types. For Windows.
Hypertrak - Software protocol analyzer accurately calculates end-to-end download speeds for each transaction, not just samples; produces a range of configurable reports that breaks down info into network and server speeds, errors, comparison to SLA's, performance for each server, client, URL, time period, etc. Runs on Solaris or Linux.
NetRaker Suite - Suite of usability testing and market research applications provide real-time customer experience measurements and competitive comparisons. Metrics are gathered via unobtrusively sampling site visitors; usability and market research templates can be used to perform site competitive comparisons; and download times across major metropolitan areas, and errors, are monitored.
Lift Online service - Usability testing service for usability and accessibility standards, including section 508 and W3C; select from 20 preferences that can be used to customize testing; each rule can be disabled or its importance changed. Can be continuously updated by adding new usability rules. Check colors, tags, fonts portability, page keywords, navigational structure, link consistency; user can inspect each usability problem in detail. LIFT Proxy Recorder can navigate through web application and record and analyze all site HTML codes.
HP OpenView VantagePoint Web Transaction Observer - Provides a window to customer’s web experience; allows analysis when failures occur during a business process, can break down response times to determine whether problems resides on customer's side, the internet, or back-end IT components. Runs on Windows with MS IIS.
XSplit - Free utility from Percussion Software that converts any standard HTML file and splits it automatically into an XML DTD and XSL style sheet.
WebBug - Debugging tool from Aman Software for monitoring HTTP protocol sends and receives; handles HTTP 0.9/1.0/1.1; allows for entry of custom headers. Freeware.
WebMetrics - Web usability testing and evaluation tool suite from U.S. Govt. NIST. Source code available. For UNIX, Windows.
MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher - tool utilizing SNMP to monitoring traffic loads on network links; generates reports as web pages with GIF graphics on inbound and outbound traffic. For UNIX, Windows.
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