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+
+## Continuous System and Integration Testing (CSIT) for NCMP-DMI-PLUGIN
+
+The directory structure:
+
+- **plans/** contains testing plans, each sub-folder represents a separate test plan, contains processed subsequently:
+    _startup.sh_ (serves docker containers startup), _testplan.txt_ (lists test-suits), _teardown.sh_ (serves docker containers stopping and images removal)
+- **scripts/** contains shell scripts used on tests executions
+- **tests/** contains test suits which are processed by folder name (relative to _tests_ folder) taken from _testplan.txt_
+
+Test suits are executed using Robots framework.
+
+### Running on local environment
+
+Prerequisites:
+- docker
+- python + pip
+- virtualenv
+
+```bash
+sudo apt install python3 python3-pip virtualenv
+```
+
+Add an alias in the ```.bashrc``` file for pip3 to be pip at the end of the file. </br>
+This file will be present on the home directory of the Ubuntu system.
+```bash
+alias pip=pip3
+```
+
+Now load the ```.bashrc``` file.
+```bash
+. .bashrc
+```
+
+The Robot framework and required python packages will be installed on first execution.
+
+Navigate to ncmp-dmi-plugin project directory
+```bash
+cd ~/<your_git_repo>/ncmp-dmi-plugin
+```
+
+Build a docker image (see also [docker-compose readme](../docker-compose/README.md) ) from your ncmp-dmi-plugin directory:
+
+```bash
+mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Ddocker.repository.push=
+```
+
+Execute test from current ncmp-dmi-plugin folder:
+```bash
+./csit/run-project-csit.sh
+```
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