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      1 Introductory information                        Automated Testing Framework
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      5 Introduction
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      8 The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries to
      9 implement test programs in a variety of languages.  At the moment, ATF
     10 offers C, C++ and POSIX shell bindings with which to implement tests.
     11 These bindings all offer a similar set of functionality and any test
     12 program written with them exposes a consistent user interface.
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     14 ATF-based test programs rely on a separate runtime engine to execute them.
     15 The runtime engine is in charge of isolating the test programs from the
     16 rest of the system to ensure that their results are deterministic and that
     17 they cannot affect the running system.  The runtime engine is also
     18 responsible for gathering the results of all tests and composing reports.
     19 The current runtime of choice is Kyua.
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     22 Other documents
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     25 * AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors for this project.
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     27 * COPYING: License information.
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     29 * INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions.  These is not the
     30   standard document shipped with many packages, so be sure to read it for
     31   things that are specific to ATF's build.
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     33 * NEWS: List of major changes between formal, published releases.
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