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+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+Test suite to validate Hadoop basic specifications
+==================================================
+
+The test suite is intended to be used as a validation tool to make sure that a
+Hadoop stack derived from Apache Bigtop is still compliant with it. The
+minimalistic way of doing so would be to guarantee compatibility of the
+environment, binaries layouts, certain configuration parameters, and so on.
+
+Validation test suite for the specs is vaguely based on Apache Bigtop iTest and
+consists of two essential parts: a configuration file, communicating the 
+functional commands and expected outcome(s) of it; and the test driver to run
+the commands and compare the results.
+ 
+Running the tests
+=================
+
+Tests could be executed by running the following command 
+```
+  gradle :bigtop-tests:spec-tests:runtime:test -Pspec.tests --info
+```
+=======
+consists of two essential parts: a configuration file, communicating the
+functional commands and expected outcome(s) of it; and the test driver to run
+the commands and compare the results.
+
+Running the tests
+=================
+
+Tests could be executed by running the following command
+```
+  gradle :bigtop-tests:spec-tests:runtime:test -Pspec.tests --info
+```
+