Atheist is a command-line based tool for program testing. It provides a feature set unrivaled by any other program testing (not unit testing) tool in Debian. With a wide and extensible library the user may prepare the test environment, check conditions after or before tests, launch helper daemons, execute tests remotely and much more. It is written in python and the main idea is that programmers may test their programs in a black-box way. Test specifications may be passed to atheist (or it looks for them in a concrete directory) which executes all of them and shows detailed statistics at the end of the execution.
The atheist API is composed by test entities that can be used by the user. For instance, Condition objects represent any situation that must be occur at a time and may be composed with other Conditions. A Test object has many useful attributes like the command to execute, terminate signal expected, pre and post conditions, maximum time of execution, become a test 'daemonizable'... With a few test files it is possible to create complex and sophisticated program tests. There is a manual written by using python-sphinx and it will be included in the package. -- --------------------------- Cleto Martín Angelina cleto.mar...@gmail.com
