ATF(7) BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual ATF(7)NAME
ATF — introduction to the Automated Testing Framework
DESCRIPTION
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.
Language bindings
atf-c(3) C programming interface.
atf-c++(3) C++ programming interface.
atf-sh(3)sh(1) programming interface.
Miscellaneous pages
atf-test-case(4) Generic description of test cases, independent of
the language they are implemented in.
atf-test-program(1) Common interface provided by the test programs
written using the ATF libraries.
SEE ALSOkyua(1), tests(7)HISTORY
ATF started as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project mentored by The Net‐
BSD 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 oper‐
ating 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been replaced by Kyua and the old tools were removed in 0.20, which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/local/share/doc/atf/NEWS
AUTHORS
For more details on the people that made ATF possible, refer to:
/usr/local/share/doc/atf/AUTHORS
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