Synopsis

The Automatic Testing Framework was developed during the previous GSoC
to simplify managing and running multiple test suites in the NetBSD code
repository. It has some strong advantages over the previous way of handling
tests and it's still being actively maintained by its author nowadays.

Unfortunately, very few test suites have been actually rewritten to the ATF
so far. The goal of this project is to convert as many remaining ones as
possible. During my work I expect to find many ways to improve ATF itself
as well.


Deliverables

 * Mandatory: most of the test suites in src/regress converted to the ATF
 * Mandatory: fixes and improvements to the ATF itself
 * Optional: new test suites


This application is based on proposal of Julio M. Merino Vidal:

 * http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#convert-regress-to-atf
 * http://mail-index.netbsd.org/atf-devel/2008/03/19/msg000031.html
 * http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-summer-of-code-2008-and-netbsd.html