1Introductory information Automated Testing Framework 2=========================================================================== 3 4 5Introduction 6************ 7 8The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries and 9utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of 10developers and end users of a specific piece of software. 11 12As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create 13test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a 14collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of 15problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much 16information as possible about the failure. 17 18As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites and, 19in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need to 20have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to be 21able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine as 22advertised. 23 24 25Other documents 26*************** 27 28* AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors for this project. 29 30* COPYING: License information. 31 32* INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions. These is not the 33 standard document shipped with many packages, so be sure to read it for 34 things that are specific to ATF's build. 35 36* NEWS: List of major changes between formal, published releases. 37 38 39=========================================================================== 40vim: filetype=text:textwidth=75:expandtab:shiftwidth=2:softtabstop=2 41