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8 <title>Basic information</title>
11 <firstname>Julio</firstname>
12 <surname>Merino</surname>
14 <orgname>The NetBSD Foundation</orgname>
19 <section id="introduction">
21 <title>Introduction</title>
23 <para>The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries
24 and utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands
25 of developers and end users of a specific piece of software.</para>
27 <para>As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily
28 create test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a
29 collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of
30 problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
31 information as possible about the failure.</para>
33 <para>As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test
34 suites and, in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not
35 need to have source trees around nor any other development tools installed
36 to be able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine
43 <title>Other documents</title>
47 <listitem><para><filename>AUTHORS</filename>: List of authors and
48 contributors for this project.</para></listitem>
50 <listitem><para><filename>COPYING</filename>: License
51 information.</para></listitem>
53 <listitem><para><filename>INSTALL</filename>: Compilation and installation
54 instructions. These is not the standard document shipped with many
55 packages, so be sure to read it for things that are specific to ATF's
56 build.</para></listitem>
58 <listitem><para><filename>NEWS</filename>: List of major changes between
59 formal, published releases.</para></listitem>
65 <section id="contributing">
67 <title>Contributing</title>
69 <para>If you are planning to contribute code to the project, be absolutely
70 sure to read doc/hacking.txt first.</para>