This is a burp suite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks.
Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated attacks against a web application, a tool to spider an entire website to identify attack surface and a has a plugin API with a ton of third party addons available!