Website Validation Tasks

This extension provides build and release tasks for validating websites. Tests web pages for broken links.

How to use

After installing the extension, you can add its tasks to a build definition or release definition as needed.

Tasks included

• Broken Link Checker: Test a web site for broken links.

The paragraphs below provide details about each task.

Broken Link Checker

Provide the base URL of a website to this task. When run, the task will visit the website and also recursively all linked pages with the same base URL and check them for broken links.

Options

• Base URL
• List of URL's to ignore (won't be reported as broken links)
• Check the link using HTTP HEAD or GET

Check results

• If at least one broken link is found, an error will be generated which, by default, will cause the build to break.
• The broken links and their containing pages are printed to the console and can be reviewed in the build's logs.

Get the source

The source for this extension is on GitHub. Take, fork, and extend.

Feedback and issues

If you have feedback or issues, please file an issue on GitHub

Using this extension as a template for your own extension

Feel free to use the source of this extension as a template for your own extension. To make it easier for you to decide if this extension suits your needs, here are its characteristics:

• Implemented in TypeScript
• Folder structure capable of multiple tasks
• Build process of this extension consists of npm scripts written in JavaScript