[Chandler-dev] New Framework Proposal

[Mikeal Rogers]

Hi Everyone,

As anyone who's been watching the commit mails must have noticed  
we've been working on a new test framework for chandler.

Currently all our work has been done in the test_framework branch as  
to not conflict with anything else going on in the trunk, and it's  
also given us some freedom to see if our ideas worked before trying  
to propose that we move a very important part of our release  
infrastructure to a new architecture.

I have written up a quick and dirty document outlining the changes  
and improvements;
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
MikealRogers20060605NewCATSFramework

In order for us to move forward we need to merge our changes in.  
Almost all of what we've done is a new tools/cats directory. In  
addition we made changes to application/Utility.py and parcels/ 
framework/scripting/script.py to support the framework.

If anyone wants to look at our code it's in the test_framework branch.