What tools can be used to monitor a web application? Beyond "doesn't 404"

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Published on 2011-03-11T15:21:30Z Indexed on 2011/03/11 16:11 UTC
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I have an internal web application that has recently gone through a major version upgrade. I would like to monitor this application over the weekend and look for 'soft' errors. I will still need to spot check things by hand, but there are some common failure patterns that I think I can automate.

Examples include data with bad formatting, blank rows in tables (indicates missing non-critical data), patterns for identifiers ("TEST" means one of my devs left a testing feed on), etc.

I think there are applications out there that can be scripted to do things like: 1. log in 2. Go to $URL 3. select 3rd link in $LIST or $PATTERN 4. Check HTML from that link for $PATTERNS 5. Email report

Are these goals sane? What applications/tools can help with this?

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