1 Major changes between releases Automated Testing Framework
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4 Changes in version 0.22
5 ***********************
7 STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT; NOT RELEASED YET.
8 DON'T FORGET TO BUMP THE -version-info PRE-RELEASE IF NECESSARY!
10 * Issue #23: Fix double-free triggered by atf_map_insert in low memory
11 scenarios, caused by an overlook in the atf_list code.
13 * Issue #29: Fixed various typos and formatting errors in manual pages.
15 * Issue #31: Added require.progs metadata properties to the tests that
16 need a compiler to run.
18 * Added the atf_check_not_equal function to atf-sh to check for
22 Changes in version 0.21
23 ***********************
25 Released on October 23rd, 2014.
27 * Restored the atf(7) manual page to serve as a reference to all the other
28 manual pages shipped by ATF.
30 * Added the -s flag to atf-sh to support specifying the shell interpreter
33 * Removed ATF_WORKDIR. The only remaining consumers have been converted to
34 use the standard TMPDIR environment variable. As a benefit, and because
35 Kyua forces the TMPDIR to live within the test case's work directory,
36 any stale files left behind by ATF will be automatically cleaned up.
38 * Documented the environment variables recognized by each component in the
39 relevant manual pages. This information was lost with the atf-config(1)
42 * Added a new "require.diskspace" metadata property to test cases so that
43 they can specify the minimum amount of disk space required for the test
46 * Renamed the atf-{c,c++,sh}-api(3) manual pages to atf-{c,c++,sh}(3) for
47 discoverability purposes. Symbolic links are provided for the time
48 being to still make the old names visible.
50 * Issue #5: Recommend the (expected, actual) idiom for calls to the test
51 macros in the manual pages.
53 * Issue #7: Stopped catching unhandled exceptions in atf-c++ tests. This
54 propagates the crash to the caller, which in turn allows it to obtain
55 proper debugging information. In particular, Kyua should now be able to
56 extract a stacktrace pinpointing the problem.
58 * Issue #8: Fixed atf-c/macros_test:use test failures spotted by the clang
59 that ships with FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT.
61 * Issue #12: Improved documentation of atf-sh(3) and atf-check(1) by better
62 explaining how they relate to each other.
64 * Issue #14: Stopped setting 'set -e' in atf-sh. This setting was
65 initially added as a way to enable a "strict" mode in the library and to
66 make test cases fail fast when they run unprotected commands. However,
67 doing so in the library is surprising as the responsibility of enabling
68 'set -e' should be on the user's code. Also, 'set -e' introduces
69 inconsistent behavior on subshells and users do not expect that.
71 * Issue #15: Fixed atf_utils_{fork,wait} to support nested calls.
73 * Issue #16: Fixed test failures (by removing a long-standing hack) on
74 systems that lack \e support in printf(1).
76 * Issue #19: Removed stale references to atf-config and atf-run.
79 Changes in version 0.20
80 ***********************
82 Experimental version released on February 7th, 2014.
84 This is the first release without the code for the deprecated tools. If
85 you require such code, please fetch a copy of the 0.19 release and extract
86 the 'tools' directory for your own consumption.
88 * Removed the deprecated tools. This includes atf-config, atf-report,
89 atf-run and atf-version.
91 * Issue #8: Fixed atf-c/macros_test:use test failures spotted by the clang
92 that ships with FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT.
95 Changes in version 0.19
96 ***********************
98 Experimental version released on February 7th, 2014.
100 This is the last release to bundle the code for the deprecated tools.
101 The next release will drop their code and will stop worrying about
102 backwards compatibility between the ATF libraries and what the old tools
103 may or may not support.
105 If you still require the old tools for some reason, grab a copy of the
106 'tools' directory now. The code in this directory is standalone and
107 does not depend on any internal details of atf-c++ any longer.
109 * Various fixes and improvements to support running as part of the FreeBSD
112 * Project hosting moved from Google Code (as a subproject of Kyua) to
113 GitHub (as a first-class project). The main reason for the change is
114 the suppression of binary downloads in Google Code on Jan 15th, 2014.
115 See https://github.com/jmmv/atf/
117 * Removed builtin help from atf-sh(1) and atf-check(1) for simplicity
118 reasons. In other words, their -h option is gone.
120 * Moved the code of the deprecated tools into a 'tools' directory and
121 completely decoupled their code from the internals of atf-c++. The
122 reason for this is to painlessly allow a third-party to maintain a
123 copy of these tools after we delete them because upcoming changes to
124 atf-c++ would break the stale tools.
127 Changes in version 0.18
128 ***********************
130 Experimental version released on November 16th, 2013.
132 * Issue 45: Added require.memory support in atf-run for FreeBSD.
134 * Fixed an issue with the handling of cin with libc++.
136 * Issue 64: Fixed various mandoc formatting warnings.
138 * NetBSD PR bin/48284: Made atf-check flush its progress message to
139 stdout so that an interrupted test case always shows the last message
142 * NetBSD PR bin/48285: Fixed atf_check examples in atf-sh-api(3).
145 Changes in version 0.17
146 ***********************
148 Experimental version released on February 14th, 2013.
150 * Added the atf_utils_cat_file, atf_utils_compare_file,
151 atf_utils_copy_file, atf_utils_create_file, atf_utils_file_exists,
152 atf_utils_fork, atf_utils_grep_file, atf_utils_grep_string,
153 atf_utils_readline, atf_utils_redirect and atf_utils_wait utility
154 functions to atf-c-api. Documented the already-public
155 atf_utils_free_charpp function.
157 * Added the cat_file, compare_file, copy_file, create_file, file_exists,
158 fork, grep_collection, grep_file, grep_string, redirect and wait
159 functions to the atf::utils namespace of atf-c++-api. These are
160 wrappers around the same functions added to the atf-c-api library.
162 * Added the ATF_CHECK_MATCH, ATF_CHECK_MATCH_MSG, ATF_REQUIRE_MATCH and
163 ATF_REQUIRE_MATCH_MSG macros to atf-c to simplify the validation of a
164 string against a regular expression.
166 * Miscellaneous fixes for manpage typos and compilation problems with
169 * Added caching of the results of those configure tests that rely on
170 executing a test program. This should help crossbuild systems by
171 providing a mechanism to pre-specify what the results should be.
173 * PR bin/45690: Make atf-report convert any non-printable characters to
174 a plain-text representation (matching their corresponding hexadecimal
175 entities) in XML output files. This is to prevent the output of test
176 cases from breaking xsltproc later.
179 Changes in version 0.16
180 ***********************
182 Experimental version released on July 10th, 2012.
184 * Added a --enable-tools flag to configure to request the build of the
185 deprecated ATF tools, whose build is now disabled by default. In order
186 to continue running tests, you should migrate to Kyua instead of enabling
187 the build of the deprecated tools. The kyua-atf-compat package provides
188 transitional compatibility versions of atf-run and atf-report built on
191 * Tweaked the ATF_TEST_CASE macro of atf-c++ so that the compiler can
192 detect defined but unused test cases.
194 * PR bin/45859: Fixed some XSLT bugs that resulted in the tc-time and
195 tp-time XML tags leaking into the generated HTML file. Also improved
196 the CSS file slightly to correct alignment and color issues with the
199 * Optimized atf-c++/macros.hpp so that GNU G++ consumes less memory during
200 compilation with GNU G++.
202 * Flipped the default to building shared libraries for atf-c and atf-c++,
203 and started versioning them. As a side-effect, this removes the
204 --enable-unstable-shared flag from configure that appears to not work any
205 more (under NetBSD). Additionally, some distributions require the use of
206 shared libraries for proper dependency tracking (e.g. Fedora), so it is
207 better if we do the right versioning upstream.
209 * Project hosting moved from an adhoc solution (custom web site and
210 Monotone repository) to Google Code (standard wiki and Git). ATF now
211 lives in a subcomponent of the Kyua project.
214 Changes in version 0.15
215 ***********************
217 Experimental version released on January 16th, 2012.
219 * Respect stdin in atf-check. The previous release silenced stdin for any
220 processes spawned by atf, not only test programs, which caused breakage
221 in tests that pipe data through atf-check.
223 * Performance improvements to atf-sh.
225 * Enabled detection of unused parameters and variables in the code and
228 * Changed the behavior of "developer mode". Compiler warnings are now
229 enabled unconditionally regardless of whether we are in developer mode or
230 not; developer mode is now only used to perform strict warning checks and
231 to enable assertions. Additionally, developer mode is now only
232 automatically enabled when building from the repository, not for formal
235 * Added new Autoconf M4 macros (ATF_ARG_WITH, ATF_CHECK_C and
236 ATF_CHECK_CXX) to provide a consistent way of defining a --with-arg flag
237 in configure scripts and detecting the presence of any of the ATF
238 bindings. Note that ATF_CHECK_SH was already introduced in 0.14, but it
239 has now been modified to also honor --with-atf if instantiated.
241 * Added timing support to atf-run / atf-report.
243 * Added support for a 'require.memory' property, to specify the minimum
244 amount of physical memory needed by the test case to yield valid results.
246 * PR bin/45690: Force an ISO-8859-1 encoding in the XML files generated by
247 atf-report so that invalid data in the output of test cases does not
251 Changes in version 0.14
252 ***********************
254 Experimental version released on June 14th, 2011.
256 * Added a pkg-config file for atf-sh and an aclocal file to ease the
257 detection of atf-sh from autoconf scripts.
259 * Made the default test case body defined by atf_sh fail. This is to
260 ensure that test cases are properly defined in test programs and helps
261 in catching typos in the names of the body functions.
263 * PR bin/44882: Made atf-run connect the stdin of test cases to /dev/zero.
264 This provides more consistent results with "normal" execution (in
265 particular, when tests are executed detached from a terminal).
267 * Made atf-run hardcode TZ=UTC for test cases. It used to undefine TZ, but
268 that does not take into account that libc determines the current timezone
269 from a configuration file.
271 * All test programs will now print a warning when they are not run through
272 atf-run(1) stating that this is unsupported and may deliver incorrect
275 * Added support for the 'require.files' test-case property. This allows
276 test cases to specify installed files that must be present for the test
280 Changes in version 0.13
281 ***********************
283 Experimental version released on March 31st, 2011.
285 This is the first release after the creation of the Kyua project, a more
286 modular and reliable replacement for ATF. From now on, ATF will change to
287 accomodate the transition to this new codebase, but ATF will still continue
288 to see development in the short/medium term. Check out the project page at
289 http://code.google.com/p/kyua/ for more details.
291 The changes in this release are:
293 * Added support to run the tests with the Kyua runtime engine (kyua-cli), a
294 new package that aims to replace atf-run and atf-report. The ATF tests
295 can be run with the new system by issuing a 'make installcheck-kyua' from
296 the top-level directory of the project (assuming the 'kyua' binary is
297 available during the configuration stage of ATF).
299 * atf-run and atf-report are now in maintenance mode (but *not* deprecated
300 yet!). Kyua already implements a new, much more reliable runtime engine
301 that provides similar features to these tools. That said, it is not
302 complete yet so all development efforts should go towards it.
304 * If GDB is installed, atf-run dumps the stack trace of crashing test
305 programs in an attempt to aid debugging. Contributed by Antti Kantee.
307 * Reverted default timeout change in previous release and reset its value
308 to 5 minutes. This was causing several issues, specially when running
309 the existing NetBSD test suite in qemu.
311 * Fixed the 'match' output checker in atf-check to properly validate the
312 last line of a file even if it does not have a newline.
314 * Added the ATF_REQUIRE_IN and ATF_REQUIRE_NOT_IN macros to atf-c++ to
315 check for the presence (or lack thereof) of an element in a collection.
317 * PR bin/44176: Fixed a race condition in atf-run that would crash atf-run
318 when the cleanup of a test case triggered asynchronous modifications to
319 its work directory (e.g. killing a daemon process that cleans up a pid
320 file in the work directory).
322 * PR bin/44301: Fixed the sample XSLT file to report bogus test programs
323 instead of just listing them as having 0 test cases.
326 Changes in version 0.12
327 ***********************
329 Experimental version released on November 7th, 2010.
331 * Added the ATF_REQUIRE_THROW_RE to atf-c++, which is the same as
332 ATF_REQUIRE_THROW but allows checking for the validity of the exception's
333 error message by means of a regular expression.
335 * Added the ATF_REQUIRE_MATCH to atf-c++, which allows checking for a
336 regular expression match in a string.
338 * Changed the default timeout for test cases from 5 minutes to 30 seconds.
339 30 seconds is long enough for virtually all tests to complete, and 5
340 minutes is a way too long pause in a test suite where a single test case
343 * Deprecated the use.fs property. While this seemed like a good idea in
344 the first place to impose more control on what test cases can do, it
345 turns out to be bad. First, use.fs=false prevents bogus test cases
346 from dumping core so after-the-fact debugging is harder. Second,
347 supporting use.fs adds a lot of unnecessary complexity. atf-run will
348 now ignore any value provided to use.fs and will allow test cases to
349 freely access the file system if they wish to.
351 * Added the atf_tc_get_config_var_as_{bool,long}{,_wd} functions to the atf-c
352 library. The 'text' module became private in 0.11 but was being used
353 externally to simplify the parsing of configuration variables.
355 * Made atf-run recognize the 'unprivileged-user' configuration variable
356 and automatically drop root privileges when a test case sets
357 require.user=unprivileged. Note that this is, by no means, done for
358 security purposes; this is just for user convenience; tests should, in
359 general, not be blindly run as root in the first place.
362 Changes in version 0.11
363 ***********************
365 Experimental version released on October 20th, 2010.
367 * The ATF_CHECK* macros in atf-c++ were renamed to ATF_REQUIRE* to match
368 their counterparts in atf-c.
370 * Clearly separated the modules in atf-c that are supposed to be public
371 from those that are implementation details. The header files for the
372 internal modules are not installed any more.
374 * Made the atf-check tool private. It is only required by atf-sh and being
375 public has the danger of causing confusion. Also, making it private
376 simplifies the public API of atf.
378 * Changed atf-sh to enable per-command error checking (set -e) by default.
379 This catches many cases in which a test case is broken but it is not
380 reported as such because execution continues.
382 * Fixed the XSTL and CSS stylesheets to support expected failures.
385 Changes in version 0.10
386 ***********************
388 Experimental version released on July 2nd, 2010.
390 Miscellaneous features
392 * Added expected failures support to test cases and atf-run. These
393 include, for example, expected clean exits, expected reception of fatal
394 signals, expected timeouts and expected errors in condition checks.
395 These statuses can be used to denote test cases that are known to fail
396 due to a bug in the code they are testing. atf-report reports these
397 tests separately but they do not count towards the failed test cases
400 * Added the ATF_CHECK_ERRNO and ATF_REQUIRE_ERRNO to the C library to
401 allow easy checking of call failures that update errno.
403 * Added the has.cleanup meta-data property to test caes that specifies
404 whether the test case has a cleanup routine or not; its value is
405 automatically set. This property is read by atf-run to know if it has to
406 run the cleanup routine; skipping this run for every test case
407 significantly speeds up the run time of test suites.
409 * Reversed the order of the ATF_CHECK_THROW macro in the C++ binding to
410 take the expected exception as the first argument and the statement to
411 execute as the second argument.
415 * Changed atf-check to support negating the status and output checks by
416 prefixing them with not- and added support to specify multiple checkers
417 for stdout and stderr, not only one.
419 * Added the match output checker to atf-check to look for regular
420 expressions in the stdout and stderr of commands.
422 * Modified the exit checks in atf-check to support checking for the
423 reception of signals.
425 Code simplifications and cleanups
427 * Removed usage messages from test programs to simplify the
428 implementation of every binding by a significant amount. They just now
429 refer the user to the appropriate manual page and do not attempt to wrap
430 lines on terminal boundaries. Test programs are not supposed to be run
431 by users directly so this minor interface regression is not important.
433 * Removed the atf-format internal utility, which is unused after the
434 change documented above.
436 * Removed the atf-cleanup internal utility. It has been unused since the
437 test case isolation was moved to atf-run in 0.8
439 * Splitted the Makefile.am into smaller files for easier maintenance and
440 dropped the use of M4. Only affects users building from the repository
443 * Intermixed tests with the source files in the source tree to provide
444 them more visibility and easier access. The tests directory is gone from
445 the source tree and tests are now suffixed by _test, not prefixed by t_.
447 * Simplifications to the atf-c library: removed the io, tcr and ui
448 modules as they had become unnecessary after all simplifications
449 introduced since the 0.8 release.
451 * Removed the application/X-atf-tcr format introduced in 0.8 release.
452 Tests now print a much simplified format that is easy to parse and nicer
453 to read by end users. As a side effect, the default for test cases is
454 now to print their results to stdout unless otherwise stated by providing
457 * Removed XML distribution documents and replaced them with plain-text
458 documents. They provided little value and introduced a lot of complexity
461 * Simplified the output of atf-version by not attempting to print a
462 revision number when building form a distfile. Makes the build system
466 Changes in version 0.9
467 **********************
469 Experimental version released on June 3rd, 2010.
471 * Added atf-sh, an interpreter to process test programs written using
472 the shell API. This is not really a shell interpreter by itself though:
473 it is just a wrapper around the system shell that eases the loading of
474 the necessary ATF libraries.
476 * Removed atf-compile in favour of atf-sh.
478 * Added the use.fs metadata property to test case, which is used to
479 specify which test cases require file system access. This is to
480 highlight dependencies on external resources more clearly and to speed up
481 the execution of test suites by skipping the creation of many unnecessary
484 * Fixed test programs to get a sane default value for their source
485 directory. This means that it should not be necessary any more to pass
486 -s when running test programs that do not live in the current directory.
488 * Defining test case headers became optional. This is trivial to achieve
489 in shell-based tests but a bit ugly in C and C++. In C, use the new
490 ATF_TC_WITHOUT_HEAD macro to define the test case, and in C++ use
491 ATF_TEST_CASE_WITHOUT_HEAD.
494 Changes in version 0.8
495 **********************
497 Experimental version released on May 7th, 2010.
499 * Test programs no longer run several test cases in a row. The execution
500 of a test program now requires a test case name, and that single test
501 case is executed. To execute several test cases, use the atf-run utility
504 * Test programs no longer fork a subprocess to isolate the execution of
505 test cases. They run the test case code in-process, and a crash of the
506 test case will result in a crash of the test program. This is to ease
507 debugging of faulty test cases.
509 * Test programs no longer isolate their test cases. This means that they
510 will not create temporary directories nor sanitize the environment any
511 more. Yes: running a test case that depends on system state by hand will
512 most likely yield different results depending on where (machine,
513 directory, user environment, etc.) it is run. Isolation has been moved
516 * Test programs no longer print a cryptic format (application/X-atf-tcs)
517 on a special file channel. They can now print whatever they want on the
518 screen. Because test programs can now only run one test case every time,
519 providing controlled output is not necessary any more.
521 * Test programs no longer write their status into a special file
522 descriptor. Instead, they create a file with the results, which is later
523 parsed by atf-run. This changes the semantics of the -r flag.
525 * atf-run has been adjusted to perform the test case isolation. As a
526 result, there is now a single canonical place that implements the
527 isolation of test caes. In previous releases, the three language
528 bindings (C, C++ and shell) had to be kept in sync with each other (read:
529 not a nice thing to do at all). As a side effect of this change, writing
530 bindings for other languages will be much, much easier from now on.
532 * atf-run forks test programs on a test case basis, instead of on a test
533 program basis as it did before. This is to provide the test case
534 isolation that was before implemented by the test programs themselves.
536 * Removed the atf-exec tool. This was used to implement test case
537 isolation in atf-sh, but it is now unnecessary.
539 * It is now optional to define the descr meta-data property. It has been
540 proven to be mostly useless, because test cases often carry a descriptive
544 Changes in version 0.7
545 **********************
547 Experimental version released on December 22nd, 2009.
549 * Added build-time checks to atf-c and atf-c++. A binding for atf-sh
552 * Migrated all build-time checks for header files to proper ATF tests.
553 This demonstrates the use of the new feature described above.
555 * Added an internal API for child process management.
557 * Converted all plain-text distribution documents to a Docbook canonical
558 version, and include pre-generated plain text and HTML copies in the
561 * Simplified the contents of the Makefile.am by regenerating it from a
562 canonical Makefile.am.m4 source. As a side-effect, some dependency
563 specifications were fixed.
565 * Migrated all checks from the check target to installcheck, as these
566 require ATF to be installed.
568 * Fixed sign comparison mismatches triggered by the now-enabled
571 * Fixed many memory and object leaks.
574 Changes in version 0.6
575 **********************
577 Experimental version released on January 18th, 2009.
579 * Make atf-exec be able to kill its child process after a certain period
580 of time; this is controlled through the new -t option.
582 * Change atf-sh to use atf-exec's -t option to control the test case's
583 timeouts, instead of doing it internally. Same behavior as before, but
586 * atf-exec's -g option and atf-killpg are gone due to the previous
589 * Added the atf-check(1) tool, a program that executes a given command
590 and checks its exit code against a known value and allows the management
591 of stdout and stderr in multiple ways. This replaces the previous
592 atf_check function in the atf-sh library and exposes this functionality
593 to both atf-c and atf-c++.
595 * Added the ATF_REQUIRE family of macros to the C interface. These help
596 in checking for fatal test conditions. The old ATF_CHECK macros now
597 perform non-fatal checks only. I.e. by using ATF_CHECK, the test case
598 can now continue its execution and the failures will not be reported
599 until the end of the whole run.
601 * Extended the amount of ATF_CHECK_* C macros with new ones to provide
602 more features to the developer. These also have their corresponding
603 counterparts in the ATF_REQUIRE_* family. The new macros (listing the
604 suffixes only) are: _EQ (replaces _EQUAL), _EQ_MSG, _STREQ and
608 Changes in version 0.5
609 **********************
611 Experimental version released on May 1st, 2008.
613 * Clauses 3 and 4 of the BSD license used by the project were dropped.
614 All the code is now under a 2-clause BSD license compatible with the GNU
615 General Public License (GPL).
617 * Added a C-only binding so that binary test programs do not need to be
618 tied to C++ at all. This binding is now known as the atf-c library.
620 * Renamed the C++ binding to atf-c++ for consistency with the new atf-c.
622 * Renamed the POSIX shell binding to atf-sh for consistency with the new
625 * Added a -w flag to test programs through which it is possible to
626 specify the work directory to be used. This was possible in prior
627 releases by defining the workdir configuration variable (-v workdir=...),
628 but was a conceptually incorrect mechanism.
630 * Test programs now preserve the execution order of test cases when they
631 are given in the command line. Even those mentioned more than once are
632 executed multiple times to comply with the user's requests.
635 Changes in version 0.4
636 **********************
638 Experimental version released on February 4th, 2008.
640 * Added two new manual pages, atf-c++-api and atf-sh-api, describing the
641 C++ and POSIX shell interfaces used to write test programs.
643 * Added a pkg-config file, useful to get the flags to build against the
644 C++ library or to easily detect the presence of ATF.
646 * Added a way for test cases to require a specific architecture and/or
647 machine type through the new 'require.arch' and 'require.machine'
648 meta-data properties, respectively.
650 * Added the 'timeout' property to test cases, useful to set an
651 upper-bound limit for the test's run time and thus prevent global test
652 program stalls due to the test case's misbehavior.
654 * Added the atf-exec(1) internal utility, used to execute a command
655 after changing the process group it belongs to.
657 * Added the atf-killpg(1) internal utility, used to kill process groups.
659 * Multiple portability fixes. Of special interest, full support for
660 SunOS (Solaris Express Developer Edition 2007/09) using the Sun Studio 12
663 * Fixed a serious bug that prevented atf-run(1) from working at all
664 under Fedora 8 x86_64. Due to the nature of the bug, other platforms
665 were likely affected too.
668 Changes in version 0.3
669 **********************
671 Experimental version released on November 11th, 2007.
673 * Added XML output support to atf-report. This is accompanied by a DTD
674 for the format's structure and sample XSLT/CSS files to post-process this
675 output and convert it to a plain HTML report.
677 * Changed atf-run to add system information to the report it generates.
678 This is currently used by atf-report's XML output only, and is later
679 printed in the HTML reports in a nice and useful summary table. The user
680 and system administrator are allowed to tune this feature by means of
683 * Removed the test cases' 'isolated' property. This was intended to
684 avoid touching the file system at all when running the related test case,
685 but this has not been true for a long while: some control files are
686 unconditionally required for several purposes, and we cannot easily get
687 rid of them. This way we remove several critical and delicate pieces of
690 * Improved atf-report's CSV output format to include information about
693 * Fixed the tests that used atf-compile to not require this tool as a
694 helper. Avoids systems without build-time utilities to skip many tests
695 that could otherwise be run. (E.g. NetBSD without the comp.tgz set
698 * Many general cleanups: Fixed many pieces of code marked as ugly and/or
702 Changes in version 0.2
703 **********************
705 Experimental version released on September 20th, 2007.
707 * Test cases now get a known umask on entry.
709 * atf-run now detects many unexpected failures caused by test programs and
710 reports them as bogus tests. atf-report is able to handle these new
711 errors and nicely reports them to the user.
713 * All the data formats read and written by the tools have been
714 documented and cleaned up. These include those grammars that define how
715 the different components communicate with each other as well as the
716 format of files written by the developers and users: the Atffiles and the
719 * Added the atf-version tool, a utility that displays information about
720 the currently installed version of ATF.
722 * Test cases can now define an optional cleanup routine to undo their
723 actions regardless of their exit status.
725 * atf-report now summarizes the list of failed (bogus) test programs
726 when using the ticker output format.
728 * Test programs now capture some termination signals and clean up any
729 temporary files before exiting the program.
731 * Multiple bug fixes and improvements all around.
734 Changes in version 0.1
735 **********************
737 Experimental version released on August 20th, 2007.
739 * First public version. This was released coinciding with the end of the
740 Google Summer of Code 2007 program.
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