Need solution for automated testing of web application

There are testing solutions like selenium and webdriver for testing web applications. However those would be sort of overkill for me as I'm looking for a simple testing solution that sends the data using get/post and analyzes the received html code. So I'm definitely not looking something that requires browser integration etc. Got some poi开发者_如何学JAVAnters?

HtmlUnit works very well for this. It even understands complicated pages using jQuery.

Try cron jobs automating a script to do that