Testing Tools and Utilities

ANTS is for load testing .NET XML Web services and other internet applications. Determines capacity of the Web service by simulating multiple clients and making multiple concurrent requests  Scripting in ANTS is done using Visual Basic .NET in the Visual Studio for Applications IDE.

Free Web-based "lint" utility that checks the syntax and style of Cascading Style Sheets. Is primarily a CSS1 checker, but many CSS2 properties are supported.

Free Web-based CSS validator for CSS2. Options include specifying the URL of the CSS page to be validated, entering the CSS page into a form text area or uploading the CSS page.

Windows-based HTML, XHTML, and WML syntax checker.

Free Web-based utility that checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML recommendations and other HTML standards. Options include specifying the URL of the  page to be validated or uploading the page.

Free downloadable tool designed to realistically reproduce multiple browsers requesting pages from a Web application. Stress tests three tier personalized Active Server Page websites running on Windows NT server 4.0 and Windows 2000.