Continuous Integration tools used for websites

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Written by Boris Baldassari

Friday, 26 March 2010 23:01

Websites are checked using external tools; namely webcheck and linkchecker.

This article describes the methods and tools used for the continuous integration services of websites.

Webcheck is a website checking tool for webmasters. It crawls a given website and generates a number of reports.

Site: arthurdejong.org/webcheck

Features of webcheck include:

Check their website for more information.

Linkchecker is an open-source project aimed at URL validation. We actualy use only a subset of its features.

Site: linkchecker.sourceforge.net

Features

recursive and multithreaded checking
output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
proxy support
username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP and Telnet
honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
Cookie support
HTML and CSS syntax check
Antivirus check
a command line interface

Check their website for more information.