Avocado Test Framework

Avocado is a test framework that is built on the experience accumulated with autotest, while improving on its weaknesses and shortcomings.

The main goal of the Avocado project is to provide a set of smart tools for automated testing and continuous integration. Among them, we can highlight:

A powerful test runner;
A multiplexer that allows tests to be run with different sets of variables;
Test APIs for test writers;
A database for results, with a web interface;
A scheduler for setting up a test grid.

Using avocado

The most straightforward way of using avocado is to install packages available for your distro:

Fedora/RHEL

Avocado is not yet officially packed in Fedora/RHEL, but you can use avocado yum repositories by putting corresponding file into /etc/yum.repos.d.
- Fedora repo
- RHEL repo
and install it by yum install avocado (or using dnf)

Once you install it, you can start exploring it by checking the output of avocado --help and the test runner man-page, accessible via man avocado.

If you want to develop avocado, or run it directly from the git repository, you have a couple of options:

The avocado test runner was designed to run in tree, for rapid development prototypes. After running:
```
$ make develop
```
Just use:
```
$ scripts/avocado --help
```
Installing avocado in the system is also an option, although remember that distutils has no uninstall functionality:
```
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ avocado --help
```

Documentation

Avocado comes with in tree documentation about the most advanced features and its API. It can be built with sphinx, but a publicly available build of the latest master branch documentation and releases can be seen on read the docs:

http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/

If you want to build the documentation yourself:

Make sure you have the package python-sphinx installed. For Fedora:
```
$ sudo yum install python-sphinx
```
For Mint/Ubuntu/Debian:
```
$ sudo apt-get install python-sphinx
```
Optionally, you can install the read the docs theme, that will make your in-tree documentation look just like the online version:
```
$ sudo pip install sphinx_rtd_theme
```
Build the docs:
```
$ make -C docs html
```

Once done, point your browser to:

$ [your-browser] docs/build/html/index.html

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Avocado Test Framework

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