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diff --git a/contrib/atf/README b/contrib/atf/README index 00caa12..d3b03ed 100644 --- a/contrib/atf/README +++ b/contrib/atf/README @@ -5,21 +5,18 @@ Introductory information Automated Testing Framework 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. +The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries to +implement test programs in a variety of languages. At the moment, ATF +offers C, C++ and POSIX shell bindings with which to implement tests. +These bindings all offer a similar set of functionality and any test +program written with them exposes a consistent user interface. + +ATF-based test programs rely on a separate runtime engine to execute them. +The runtime engine is in charge of isolating the test programs from the +rest of the system to ensure that their results are deterministic and that +they cannot affect the running system. The runtime engine is also +responsible for gathering the results of all tests and composing reports. +The current runtime of choice is Kyua. Other documents |