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<h2 id="initializing-your-repo-client">Initializing your Repo client</h2>
<p>Follow the <a href="{@docRoot}source/downloading.html">instructions</a>
to get and build the Android source code but specify a particular CTS branch
name, for example<code>-b android-5.0_r2</code>, when issuing the <code>repo
init</code> command. This assures your CTS changes will be included in the
next CTS release and beyond.</p>

<h2 id="building-and-running-cts">Building and running CTS</h2>

<p>Execute the following commands to build CTS and start the interactive
CTS console:</p>
<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> You may supply one of these other values
for <code>TARGET_PRODUCT</code> to build for different architectures:
<code>aosp_x86_64</code> or <code>aosp_mips</code></p>
<pre><code>cd <em>/path/to/android/root</em>
make cts -j32 TARGET_PRODUCT=aosp_arm64
cts-tradefed
</code></pre>

<p>At the cts-tf console, enter e.g.:</p>
<pre><code>run cts --plan CTS
</code></pre>

<h2 id="writing-cts-tests">Writing CTS tests</h2>

<p>CTS tests use JUnit and the Android testing APIs. Review the 
<a href="https://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_android.html">Testing and Instrumentation</a>
tutorial while perusing the existing tests under the
<code>cts/tests</code> directory. You will see that CTS tests mostly follow the same
conventions used in other Android tests.</p>
<p>Since CTS runs across many production devices, the tests must follow
these rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Must take into account varying screen sizes, orientations, and keyboard layouts.</li>
<li>Only use public API methods. In other words, avoid all classes, methods, and fields that are annotated with the "hide" annotation.</li>
<li>Avoid relying upon particular view layouts or depend on the dimensions of assets that may not be on some device.</li>
<li>Don't rely upon root privileges.</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="test-naming-and-location">Test naming and location</h3>

<p>Most CTS test cases target a specific class in the Android API. These tests
have Java package names with a <code>cts</code> suffix and class
names with the <code>Test</code> suffix. Each test case consists of
multiple tests, where each test usually exercises a particular API method of
the API class being tested. These tests are arranged in a directory structure
where tests are grouped into different categories like "widgets" and "views."</p>

<p>For example, the CTS test for <code>android.widget.TextView</code> is
<code>android.widget.cts.TextViewTest</code> found under the
<code>cts/tests/tests/widget/src/android/widget/cts</code> directory with its
Java package name as <code>android.widget.cts</code> and its class name as
<code>TextViewTest</code>. The <code>TextViewTest</code> class has a test called <code>testSetText</code>
that exercises the "setText" method and a test named "testSetSingleLine" that
calls the <code>setSingleLine</code> method. Each of those tests have <code>@TestTargetNew</code>
annotations indicating what they cover.</p>

<p>Some CTS tests do not directly correspond to an API class but are placed in
the most related package possible. For instance, the CTS test,
<code>android.net.cts.ListeningPortsTest</code>, is in the <code>android.net.cts</code>, because it
is network related even though there is no <code>android.net.ListeningPorts</code> class.
You can also create a new test package if necessary. For example, there is an
"android.security" test package for tests related to security. Thus, use your
best judgement when adding new tests and refer to other tests as examples.</p>

<p>Finally, a lot of tests are annotated with @TestTargets and @TestTargetNew.
These are no longer necessary so do not annotate new tests with these.</p>
<h3 id="new-test-packages">New sample packages</h3>
<p>When adding new tests, there may not be an existing directory to place your
test. In that case, refer to the example under <code>cts/tests/tests/example</code> and
create a new directory. Furthermore, make sure to add your new package's
module name from its <code>Android.mk</code> to <code>CTS_COVERAGE_TEST_CASE_LIST</code> in
<code>cts/CtsTestCaseList.mk</code>. This Makefile is used by <code>build/core/tasks/cts.mk</code>
to glue all the tests together to create the final CTS package.</p>

<h2 id="Fix-remove-tests">Fix or remove tests</h2>
<p>Besides adding new tests there are other ways to contribute to CTS: Fix or
remove tests annotated with "BrokenTest" or "KnownFailure."</p>
<h2 id="submitting-your-changes">Submitting your changes</h2>
<p>Follow the <a href="{@docRoot}source/submit-patches.html">Submitting Patches workflow</a>
to contribute changes to CTS. A reviewer
will be assigned to your change, and your change should be reviewed shortly!</p>

<h2 id="release-schedule">Release schedule and branch information</h2>

<p>CTS releases follow this schedule.</p>

<p class="note"><strong>Note</strong>: This schedule is tentative and may be
updated from time to time as CTS for the given Android version matures.</p>

<table>
<tr>
  <th>Version</th>
  <th>Branch</th>
  <th>Frequency</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
  <td>5.1</td>
  <td>lollipop-mr1-cts-dev</td>
  <td>Monthly</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>5.0</td>
  <td>lollipop-cts-dev</td>
  <td>Monthly</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>4.4</td>
  <td>kitkat-cts-dev</td>
  <td>Odd month (Jan, Mar, etc.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>4.3</td>
  <td>jb-mr2-cts-dev</td>
  <td>First month of each quarter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>4.2</td>
  <td>jb-mr1.1-cts-dev</td>
  <td>First month of each quarter</td>
</tr>
</table>

<h3 id="important-dates">Important Dates during month of the release</h3>

<ul>
  <li><strong>End of 1st Week</strong>: Code Freeze.  At this point,
submissions on the current branch will no longer be accepted and will not be
included in the next version of CTS.  Once we have chosen a candidate for
release, the branch will again be open and accepting new submissions.

  <li><strong>Second or third week</strong>: CTS is published in the Android
Open Source Project (AOSP).
</ul>

<h3 id="auto-merge">Auto-merge flow</h3>

<p>CTS development branches have been setup so that changes submitted to each
branch will automatically merge as below:<br>
jb-dev-> jb-mr1.1-cts-dev -> jb-mr2-cts-dev  -> kitkat-cts-dev ->
lollipop-cts-dev -> lollipop-mr1-cts-dev -> &lt;private-development-branch for
Android M&gt;</p>

<p>If a changelist (CL) fails to merge correctly, the author of the CL will get
an email with instructions on how to resolve the conflict. In most of the
cases, the author of the CL can use the instructions to skip the auto-merge of
the conflicting CL.</p>