Automatic web tester for 404 links?

Question

Is there any test framework or software that can automatically go through a site and find 404 errors from links?

Answer 1

You could use an extension for your favourite browser, i.e. LinkChecker for Firefox.

Answer 2

Are you looking for a tool that does complete validation/checking of the site? Or one that does use-case testing of specific parts of the site.

For the latter I recommend TestPlan, it has the ability to check the headers of pages and work with the so-called "meta" response of the page. The original web-site is no longer available but the project is now hosted on Launchpad.

For the former it isn't the best tool, but as part of a test framework it is easy enough to get it to scan through links on the site looking for errors.

Answer 3

If you're running on Windows there is this one.