Introductory information Automated Testing Framework

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Introduction

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The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries and

utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of

developers and end users of a specific piece of software.

As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create

test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a

collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of

problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much

information as possible about the failure.

As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites and,

in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need to

have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to be

able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine as

advertised.

Other documents

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* AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors for this project.

* COPYING: License information.

* INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions. These is not the

standard document shipped with many packages, so be sure to read it for

things that are specific to ATF's build.

* NEWS: List of major changes between formal, published releases.

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