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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 and
      9 utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of
     10 developers and end users of a specific piece of software.
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     12 As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create
     13 test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a
     14 collection of test cases.  It also attempts to simplify the debugging of
     15 problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
     16 information as possible about the failure.
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     18 As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites and,
     19 in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need to
     20 have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to be
     21 able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine as
     22 advertised.
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     25 Other documents
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     28 * AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors for this project.
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     30 * COPYING: License information.
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     32 * INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions.  These is not the
     33   standard document shipped with many packages, so be sure to read it for
     34   things that are specific to ATF's build.
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     36 * NEWS: List of major changes between formal, published releases.
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