SPTF version 0.01
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DESCRIPTION

SPTF is a framework for tests management and execution.
Most testing framework that I know does not combine those two
different tasks. Either you can only execute the tests with
more or less control over this process, or you can manage
somehow the information about the tests without the ability to
execute them.
SPTF is a single application to rule them both, to bring them
both and in the darkness to bind them.

INSTALLATION

To install this software, just open the SPTF compressed archive.

USAGE

# ./sptf --help

For more info read SPTF wiki.

EXAMPLE

There is a very short example of how the test case/scenario
may look like. 
You may start with the follow commands:

# ./sptf --show-summary --all-scenarios

# ./sptf --show-tc-summary --scenario-id 1

# ./sptf --run --scenario-id 1

This should give you a basic idea what the SPTF is about.
Next versions will include more sophisticated examples.

DEPENDENCIES

I do my best to have as few as possible. But still - there are some.

* Perl interpreter (I guess, versions 5.8.5 and higher are good enough)

The follow Perl modules:
* Carp - should be part of your Perl core installation
* YAML - as above (and if not, let me know)
* Getopt::Long - as above
* Test::More   - as above
* Test::Builder - should be a part of Test::More module
* Time::Elapse - it's not the Perl core module, but it's not mandatory.
                 SPTF can work without it. Without this you won't see
				 the total time of the test.

* Text::ASCIITable - as above. If available, all show options are 
                     printed within nice ASCII tables.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Thomas Maier, hayzer@gmail.com 

Copyright (c) 2008-2009 by Thomas Maier. All Rights Reserved.  This program
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.

If you have suggestions for improvement, please drop me a line.  If
you make improvements to this software, I ask that you please send me
a copy of your changes. Thanks.