   Basic information

   By Julio Merino, The NetBSD Foundation

                                    Contents

    1. Introduction

    2. Other documents

    3. Contributing

                                  Introduction

   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

     * 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.

                                  Contributing

   If you are planning to contribute code to the project, be absolutely sure
   to read doc/hacking.txt first.
