| ATF(7) | Miscellaneous Information Manual | ATF(7) | 
ATF —
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.
If your operating systems distributes ATF,
    it is possible that it provides an introductory
    tests(7) manual page. You are
    encouraged to read it now.
ATF is distributed under the terms of the TNF License, a
  2-clause BSD license. For more details please see:
/usr/share/doc/atf/COPYING
ATF is a highly modular piece of software. It provides a
  couple of libraries to ease the implementation of test programs: one for the C
  and C++ languages and another one for shell scripts. It also includes multiple
  small utilities that follow the principle of doing a single thing but doing it
  right. This section outlines which these components are.
Public utilities:
atf-run to user-friendly
      and/or machine-parseable reports.Programming interfaces:
Other:
ATF libraries.For developers wanting to write their own tests:
For those interested in ATF internals:
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.
For more details on this subject, please see:
/usr/share/doc/atf/NEWS /usr/share/doc/atf/ROADMAP
ATF possible,
  please see:
/usr/share/doc/atf/AUTHORS
| August 28, 2010 | NetBSD 10.0 |