Furies - a web site testing tool

What is it?

A web site testing tool that uses HttpClient to download web site resource. Each web site resource can be then tested against one of the pre-packaged tests from Furies or you can easily write your own. Configuration can be performed programmatically for being embedded into other applications or can be configured via an XML file which is parsed via Digester.

Building

Get Ant
Get NetComponents.jar and place into $ANT_HOME/lib
Checkout furies from cvs
cd etc (in the furies cvs tree)
ant download all
done

I have UNIX and you are giving me zip files!

Don't worry. Use jar xf myfile.zip to unzip the file.

Running from command line

java -cp XX net.funkman.furies.listener.CommandLineListener --help
The above will show the args
XX are all the jars need to run furies. Or you can use the CLASSPATH environment variable.
Yes - this is cumbersome. I cannot determine a better packaging method for command line use. If you have ideas or patches - let me know.

Integrate with ant

See the furies task in build.xml

Todo

DONE [0.6]- Allow custom HTTP request headers be sent.
DONE [0.6]- Support other HTTP methods besides GET.
DONE [0.6]- Proxy server support.
DONE [0.6]- Add Condition: XML wellformed checker
DONE [0.6]- Make the distribution include the source.
DONE [0.6]- Make additional distribution with all included dependencies.
Add Condition: Html checker -- I don't want to write this, does any have code to do this?
Add Condition: Link checker -- I don't want to write the HTML parser, does any have code to reliably get the links? I can easily pass them to HttpClient.
Make the HttpMethod directly availble to the Condition.

Why the name Furies?

See http://www.bartleby.com/65/fu/Furies.html or http://www.thanasis.com/modern/furies.htm.

I plan to run this program nightly on a web site I help manage which is highly dynamic with respect to data and programming. When and if Furies has finds a problem, no mercy will be shown to the programmer who messed the page up. (or the data maintenance person)

I also needed a name.