1# Trade Federation (TF / Tradefed)
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3TF is a test harness used to drive Android automated testing. It runs on test hosts
4and monitors the connected devices, handling test scheduling & execution and device
5management.
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7Other test harnesses like Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) and Vendor Test Suite
8(VTS) use TF as a basis and extend it for their particular needs.
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10Building TF:
11  * source build/envsetup.sh
12  * tapas tradefed-all
13  * make -j8
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15More information at:
16https://source.android.com/devices/tech/test_infra/tradefed/
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18See more details about Tradefed Architecture at:
19https://source.android.com/devices/tech/test_infra/tradefed/architecture
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21If you are a tests writer you should start looking in the test_framework/
22component which contains everything needed to write a tests in Tradefed.
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