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  14 <p class="title">Basic information</p>
  15 <p class="author">By Julio Merino, The NetBSD Foundation</p>
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  18 <h1>Contents</h1>
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  21 <p>
  22 <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a>
  23 </p>
  24 </li>
  25 <li>
  26 <p>
  27 <a href="#docs">Other documents</a>
  28 </p>
  29 </li>
  30 <li>
  31 <p>
  32 <a href="#contributing">Contributing</a>
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  38 <h1>
  39 <a name="introduction">Introduction</a>
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  42 The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries
  43 and utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in
  44 the hands
  45 of developers and end users of a specific piece of software.
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  48 As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily
  49 create test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in
  50 turn are a
  51 collection of test cases.  It also attempts to simplify the
  52 debugging of
  53 problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
  54 information as possible about the failure.
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  57 As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test
  58 suites and, in special, encourages end users to run them often:
  59 they do not
  60 need to have source trees around nor any other development tools
  61 installed
  62 to be able to certify that a given piece of software works on their
  63 machine
  64 as advertised.
  65 </p>
  66 <h1>
  67 <a name="docs">Other documents</a>
  68 </h1>
  69 <ul>
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  72 <tt class="filename">AUTHORS</tt>: List of authors and
  73 contributors for this project.
  74 </p>
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  78 <tt class="filename">COPYING</tt>: License
  79 information.
  80 </p>
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  84 <tt class="filename">INSTALL</tt>: Compilation and installation
  85 instructions.  These is not the standard document shipped with many
  86 packages, so be sure to read it for things that are specific to
  87 ATF's
  88 build.
  89 </p>
  90 </li>
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  93 <tt class="filename">NEWS</tt>: List of major changes between
  94 formal, published releases.
  95 </p>
  96 </li>
  97 </ul>
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  99 <a name="contributing">Contributing</a>
 100 </h1>
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 102 If you are planning to contribute code to the project, be
 103 absolutely
 104 sure to read doc/hacking.txt first.
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