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jmmv 866b001ea5 Import of ATF 0.3
Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3, a project
that provides a framework to easily implement test cases for the NetBSD
operating system and some tools to run them and generate reports with the
results.

Note that this is just the framework (libraries and tools), which is and
will be maintained externally.  The tests themselves will come later, will
be put under the 'tests' hierarchy and will be managed exclusively under
the NetBSD CVS tree given that they are tied to the operating system.

The work done until version 0.1 was sponsored by the Google Summer of Code
2007 program and mentored by martin@.
2007-11-12 14:50:50 +00:00

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Automated Testing Framework (atf)
Copyright (c) 2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Version 0.3
===========
Release date: November 11th, 2007
Status: Experimental
Changes:
* Added XML output support to atf-report. This is accompanied by a DTD for
the format's structure and sample XSLT/CSS files to post-process this
output and convert it to a plain HTML report.
* Changed atf-run to add system information to the report it generates.
This is currently used by atf-report's XML output only, and is later
printed in the HTML reports in a nice and useful summary table. The user
and system administrator are allowed to tune this feature by means of
hooks.
* Removed the test cases' 'isolated' property. This was intended to avoid
touching the file system at all when running the related test case, but
this has not been true for a long while: some control files are
unconditionally required for several purposes, and we cannot easily get
rid of them. This way we remove several critical and delicate pieces of
code.
* Improved atf-report's CSV output format to include information about
test programs too.
* Fixed the tests that used atf-compile to not require this tool as a
helper. Avoids systems without build-time utilities to skip many tests
that could otherwise be run. (E.g. NetBSD without the comp.tgz set
installed.)
* Many general cleanups: Fixed many pieces of code marked as ugly and/or
incomplete.
Version 0.2
===========
Release date: September 20th, 2007
Status: Experimental
Changes:
* Test cases now get a known umask on entry.
* atf-run now detects many unexpected failures caused by test programs
and reports them as bogus tests. atf-report is able to handle these
new errors and nicely reports them to the user.
* All the data formats read and written by the tools have been documented
and cleaned up. These include those grammars that define how the
different components communicate with each other as well as the format
of files written by the developers and users: the Atffiles and the
configuration files.
* Added the atf-version tool, a utility that displays information about the
currently installed version of ATF.
* Test cases can now define an optional cleanup routine to undo their
actions regardless of their exit status.
* atf-report now summarizes the list of failed (bogus) test programs when
using the ticker output format.
* Test programs now capture some termination signals and clean up any
temporary files before exiting the program.
* Multiple bug fixes and improvements all around.
Version 0.1
===========
Release date: August 20th, 2007
Status: Experimental
Changes:
* First public version. This was released coinciding with the end of the
Google Summer of Code 2007 program.
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