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+# CSIT - Continuous System Integration Testing
+
+1. [Architecture](#architecture)
+1. [Directory Structure](#directory-structure)
+   1. [Tests](#tests)
+   1. [Keywords](#keywords)
+   1. [Other Resources](#other-resources)
+1. [Quickstart](#quick-start)
+   1. [Vagrant](#vagrant)
+   1. [Physical Testbed](#physical-testbed)
+1. [Report](#report)
+1. [Trending](#trending)
+1. [Code Documentation](#code-documentation)
+1. [Coding Guidelines](#coding-guidelines)
+
+## Architecture
+
+FD.io CSIT system design needs to meet continuously expanding requirements of
+FD.io projects including VPP, related sub-systems (e.g. plugin applications,
+DPDK drivers) and FD.io applications (e.g. DPDK applications), as well as
+growing number of compute platforms running those applications. With CSIT
+project scope and charter including both FD.io continuous testing AND
+performance trending/comparisons, those evolving requirements further amplify
+the need for CSIT framework modularity, flexibility and usability.
+
+CSIT follows a hierarchical system design with SUTs and DUTs at the bottom level
+of the hierarchy, presentation level at the top level and a number of functional
+layers in-between. The current CSIT system design including CSIT framework is
+depicted in the figure below.
+
+![csit design](docs/report/csit_framework_documentation/csit_design_picture.svg "CSIT architecture")
+
+A brief bottom-up description is provided here:
+
+1. SUTs, DUTs, TGs
+   - SUTs - Systems Under Test;
+   - DUTs - Devices Under Test;
+   - TGs - Traffic Generators;
+1. Level-1 libraries - Robot and Python
+   - Lowest level CSIT libraries abstracting underlying test environment, SUT,
+     DUT and TG specifics;
+   - Used commonly across multiple L2 KWs;
+   - Performance and functional tests:
+     - L1 KWs (KeyWords) are implemented as RF libraries and Python
+       libraries;
+   - Performance TG L1 KWs:
+     - All L1 KWs are implemented as Python libraries:
+       - Support for TRex only today;
+   - Performance data plane traffic profiles:
+     - TG-specific stream profiles provide full control of:
+       - Packet definition – layers, MACs, IPs, ports, combinations thereof
+         e.g. IPs and UDP ports;
+       - Stream definitions - different streams can run together, delayed,
+         one after each other;
+       - Stream profiles are independent of CSIT framework and can be used
+         in any T-rex setup, can be sent anywhere to repeat tests with
+         exactly the same setup;
+       - Easily extensible – one can create a new stream profile that meets
+         tests requirements;
+       - Same stream profile can be used for different tests with the same
+         traffic needs;
+   - Functional data plane traffic scripts:
+     - Scapy specific traffic scripts;
+1. Level-2 libraries - Robot resource files
+   - Higher level CSIT libraries abstracting required functions for executing
+     tests;
+   - L2 KWs are classified into the following functional categories:
+     - Configuration, test, verification, state report;
+     - Suite setup, suite teardown;
+     - Test setup, test teardown;
+1. Tests - Robot
+   - Test suites with test cases;
+   - Functional tests using VIRL environment:
+     - VPP;
+     - Honeycomb;
+     - NSH_SFC;
+     - DMM;
+     - TLDK;
+   - Performance tests using physical testbed environment:
+     - VPP;
+     - DPDK-Testpmd;
+     - DPDK-L3Fwd;
+     - Honeycomb;
+     - VPP Container K8s orchestrated topologies;
+   - Tools:
+     - Documentation generator;
+     - Report generator;
+     - Testbed environment setup ansible playbooks;
+     - Operational debugging scripts;
+
+## Directory Structure
+
+### Tests
+
+```
+.
+└── tests
+    ├── dmm
+    │   └── func                    # DMM functional VIRL tests
+    ├── dpdk
+    │   ├── dpdk_scripts            # DPDK helper scripts
+    │   └── perf                    # DPDK performance tests
+    ├── honeycomb
+    │   ├── func                    # Honeycomb functional VIRL tests
+    │   └── perf                    # Honeycomb functional performance tests
+    ├── kubernetes
+    │   └── perf                    # VPP K8S orchestration performance tests
+    ├── nsh_sfc
+    │   ├── func                    # NSH_SFC functional tests
+    │   └── sfc_scripts             # NSH_SFC helper scripts
+    ├── tldk
+    │   ├── func                    # TLDK functional VIRL tests
+    │   ├── tldk_scripts            # TLDK helper scripts
+    │   └── tldk_testconfig         # TLDK test configuration
+    └── vpp
+        ├── device                  # VPP device tests
+        ├── func                    # VPP functional VIRL tests
+        └── perf                    # VPP performance tests
+```
+
+### Keywords
+
+```
+.
+resources
+└── libraries
+    ├── bash
+    │   ├── config
+    │   ├── entry                   # Main bootstrap entry directory
+    │   ├── function                # Bootstrap function library
+    │   ├── qemu_patches            # Custom QEMU patches (see KVM methodology)
+    │   └── shell                   # Various functions
+    ├── python                      # Python L1 KWs
+    └── robot                       # Robot Framework L2 KWs
+```
+
+### Other Resources
+
+```
+.
+├── docs                            # Main documentaion
+├── PyPI                            # PyPI packages provided by CSIT
+│   ├── jumpavg
+│   └── MLRsearch
+├── resources
+│   ├── templates                   # Templates (vpp_api_test, kubernetes, ...)
+│   ├── test_data                   # Robot Test configuration
+│   ├── tools
+│   │   ├── disk-image-builder      # Utilities for building (DCR, VM) images
+│   │   ├── doc_gen                 # Code documentation generator
+│   │   ├── papi                    # PAPI driver
+│   │   ├── presentation            # Report generator
+│   │   ├── scripts                 # Various tools
+│   │   ├── testbed-setup           # Physical testbed setup scripts
+│   │   ├── topology                # Helper scripts for topology manipulation
+│   │   ├── trex                    # TRex driver
+│   │   ├── vagrant                 # VPP device vagrant environment
+│   │   ├── virl                    # VIRL helper scripts
+│   │   └── wrk                     # WRK driver
+│   ├── topology_schemas
+│   ├── traffic_profiles            # Performance tests traffic profiles
+│   │   ├── trex
+│   │   └── wrk
+│   └── traffic_scripts             # Functional tests traffic profiles
+│       ├── dhcp
+│       ├── honeycomb
+│       └── lisp
+└── topologies                      # Linux Foundation topology files
+    ├── available
+    └── enabled
+```
+
+## Quickstart
+
+### Vagrant
+
+[Vagrant environment preparation](docs/testing_in_vagrant.rst) documentaion is
+describing local VPP Device functional testing.
+
+### Physical Testbed
+
+[Physical testbed preparation](resources/tools/testbed-setup/README.md)
+documentation is describing PXE and Ansible setup process. All the software
+requirements for running Performance Teste are part of Ansible playbooks.
+
+## Report
+
+[CSIT Report](https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/).
+
+## Trending
+
+[CSIT Trending](https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/).
+
+## Code Documentation
+
+[CSIT Code Documentation](https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/doc/).
+
+## Coding Guidelines
+
+If you are interested in contributing, please see the
+[coding guidelines](docs/test_code_guidelines.rst).