3 By Julio Merino, The NetBSD Foundation
15 The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries and
16 utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of
17 developers and end users of a specific piece of software.
19 As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create
20 test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a
21 collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of
22 problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
23 information as possible about the failure.
25 As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites
26 and, in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need
27 to have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to
28 be able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine
33 * AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors for this project.
35 * COPYING: License information.
37 * INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions. These is not the
38 standard document shipped with many packages, so be sure to read it
39 for things that are specific to ATF's build.
41 * NEWS: List of major changes between formal, published releases.
45 If you are planning to contribute code to the project, be absolutely sure
46 to read doc/hacking.txt first.