Automation framework evaluation

Framework(with link)	Advantages	Disadvantages
autotest It is designed primarily totest the Linux kernel, though it is useful for many other functions such asqualifying new hardware. It used and developed by a number of organizations, including Google, IBM, Red Hat, andmany others. Developed on Python	ready for work linux kernel, supports some logging services and crashdump under active developemnt could work in "client" mode with minimum setup in server mode: ready to work on sets of nodes and selecting nodes based on marks/lables have jobs queue supports	very limited test selection, include list, exclude list, tagging support have pretty simple web UI test structure pretty complex
STAF The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is an open source, multi-platform,multi-language framework, lead by IBM Core developed on C. You can interact with STAF from many languages (Java, C, C++, Python,Perl, Tcl, Rexx) and from the command line/shell prompt.	multi-platform, works on Windows, Linux, AIX ...	doesn't ready for linux kernel specific functionality ...
robotframework	Example	Example