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 for automatic fixing of HTML errors, formatting disorganized editing, and finding problem HTML areas. Available as source code or binaries.
Security Test Tools
Nessus Security Scanner – Free, open-source remote network security auditing tool, 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.
Nikto Scanner - Open source web server scanner from CIRT.net which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3300 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated.
Java Test Tools
PMD – Open source tool scans Java code for potential bugs, dead code, duplicate code, etc. – works with a variety of configurable and modifiable rulesets. Integrates with a wide variety of IDE’s.
JLint – Open source static analysis tool will check Java code and find bugs, inconsistencies and synchronization problems by doing data flow analysis and building the lock graph.
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