In order to release a device to the market, You need to run the Compatibility Test Suite given by android...I need to know how to download and run it..
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As XC said in a comment, as of 2.0, the CTS is freely available.
For it to be runnable, you have to build the tests. In your top level android directory, do all the normal build set-up steps and then
make cts
Then in the out/host/linux-x86/cts/android-cts/tools
sub directory, you will find the startcts
bash script. I expect the location might depend on what platform you are building on. Modify it to point out your SDK and then run the script. It is relatively self explanatory.

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Thanks for all the guides and links above that helps me to setup the CTS successfully.
I using - Android CTS v2.3_r8
I summarize the steps here for those who wish to get CTS up on Windows.
Install cygwin here: http://www.cygwin.com
I placed
android-cts
in mycygwin
folder e.g.C:\cygwin\home\Username\
. You may set up accordingly if you have placed it elsewhere.Create new Environment Variables to point to SDK_ROOT and CTS_ROOT directories
- Go to Control panel->System -> Advanced tab
- Click on Environment variables
- Click on New to add CTS_ROOTS to system variables and add the path of android-cts to its value
- Do the same for SDK_ROOT and add the path of andriod-sdk to its value
Go to
android-cts\tools
and modify 2 lines in thestartcts
script file as follows [With help from How to run Android's CTS on windows on an emulator but some slight modification that works for meJARS="$(cygpath -w -p ${CTS_LIB}:${DDM_LIB}:${JUNIT_LIB}:${HOSTTEST_LIB})" java ${JAVA_OPTS} -cp ${JARS} com.android.cts.TestHost "$(cygpath -w "${CONFIG}")" "$@" ${DDCONFIG}
Save startcts
as Unix file. I use dos2unix.exe
downloaded from http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html to convert it to Unix file.
Then, to run CTS
Attach android device to PC
(a) Go to cmd prompt, type
adb install -r android-cts/repository/testcases/CtsDeviceAdmin.apk
(b) On the device, enable all the
android.deviceadmin.cts.*
device administrators under Settings > Location & security > Select device administratorsRun cygwin and go to
android-cts/tools
Execute Android CTS by
./startcts
For how to run the tests in CTS, I refer again to section Working with CTS in the link given the earlier comment by cezio "using-androids-compatibility-test-suite"
As of ICS (4.0), cts has had a bit of a makeover. Now it's called cts-tradefed
.
The Google-provided documentation is available here.
For a simple way to get up to speed on using cts-tradefed from your AOSP root directory and a connected device with a matching AOSP build:
make cts
cd out/host/$OSDIR/cts/android-cts/tools
./cts-tradefed
Here, $OSDIR
is either linux-x86
, darwin-x86
in the cts-shell:
help
list packages
list plans
run cts --plan CTS
run cts --package android.webkit
If it's not obvious, you can also use one of the plans or packages listed from list packages
or list plans
.
Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else. It would've been quite helpful for me to find it earlier.

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There is a quite good documentation on Android's source website. Also, some time ago I've wrote small crash course on CTS.