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The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries and
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utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of
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developers and end users of a specific piece of software.
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As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create
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test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a
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collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of
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problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
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information as possible about the failure.
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As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites and,
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in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need to
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have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to be
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able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine as
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advertised.
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