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We used to deploy a product called Linkbot, who could crawl a site and fill in form and stuff, and make us a report, this was a very well thought product: the company who was doing it was called Watchfire but it seems their product range has changed.

This is a subject that I am very interested in.
As a testing team lead for Web applications, I often have the debate as to why we don't automate more of our testing.
Automated testing is good for Regression testing ONLY!
Once your site is stable enough to use automated testing tool, you don't have to worry about it because you are out of a job.
While you are developing the site you should use validation tools.
There are many that are readily available, such as: Bobby for accessability testing; W3C for validation of HTML, CSS, XML...; Coast for link checking; Webglimpse for change control.
Log in to a site such QAForums for various opinion and reccomendations.
Do not rely on automation totally. Only a human with all their failings and experiences will be able to do what no automated tool can, the "stupid user stuff".

I work for Watchfire a leading maker of website quality management software. One part of the suite is FeedbackXM, a user feedback survey system (of the survey button on the web page / pop-up survey kind.)

FeedbackXM uses Tomcat as an application server. This information is in the customer documentation.

I work for Watchfire a leading maker of website quality management software. One part of the suite is FeedbackXM, a user feedback survey system (of the survey button on the web page / pop-up survey kind.)

FeedbackXM uses Tomcat as an application server. This information is in the customer documentation.