| ATF(7) | Miscellaneous Information Manual | ATF(7) |
ATF — introduction
to the Automated Testing Framework
The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a
collection
of libraries to implement test programs in a variety of languages.
These libraries all offer similar functionality and any test program written
with them exposes a consistent user interface.
Test programs using the ATF libraries rely
on a separate runtime engine to execute them in a deterministic fashion. The
runtime engine isolates the test programs from the rest of the system and
ensures some common side-effects are cleaned up. The runtime engine is also
responsible for gathering the results of all tests and composing reports.
The current runtime of choice is Kyua, described in
kyua(1).
If your operating systems distributes ATF,
it should also provide an introductory tests(7) manual
page. You are encouraged to read it now.
The rest of this manual page serves as a cross-reference to all
the other documentation shipped with ATF.
ATF libraries.ATF started as a Google Summer of Code
2007 project mentored by The NetBSD Foundation. Its original goal was to
provide a testing framework for the NetBSD operating
system, but it grew as an independent project because the framework itself
did not need to be tied to a specific operating system.
Originally, ATF shipped the collection of
libraries described in this manual page as well as a runtime engine. The
runtime engine has since been replaced by Kyua and the old tools were
removed in 0.20, which shipped in early 2014.
As of late 2014, both FreeBSD and
NetBSD ship ATF in their
base systems and provide extensive test suites based on it.
For more details on historical changes, refer to:
/usr/share/doc/atf/NEWS
For more details on the people that made
ATF possible, refer to:
/usr/share/doc/atf/AUTHORS
| September 14, 2014 | Debian |