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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. (c) 2017 ZTE Corp.
+
+
+*********
+Framework
+*********
+
+QTIP is built upon `Ansible`_ by extending `modules`_, `playbook roles`_ and `plugins`_.
+
+.. _Ansible: https://www.ansible.com/
+.. _modules: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/modules.html
+.. _playbook roles: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_roles.html
+.. _plugins: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/dev_guide/developing_plugins.html
+
+Modules
+=======
+
+QTIP creates dedicated modules to gather slave node list and information from installer master. See embedded document
+in ``qtip/ansible_library/modules`` for details
+
+Plugins
+=======
+
+Stored in ``qtip/ansible_library/plugins``
+
+Action plugins
+--------------
+
+Several action plugins have been created for test data post processing
+
+* collect - parse and collect metrics from raw test results like log files
+* calculate - calculate score according to specification
+* aggregate - aggregate calculated results from all hosts under test
+
+Playbook roles
+==============
+
+QTIP roles
+----------
+
+* qtip - main qtip tasks
+* qtip-common - common tasks required in QTIP
+* qtip-workspace - generate a workspace for running benchmarks
+
+``qtip`` roles should be included with a specified ``action`` and ``output`` directory, e.g.::
+
+    - { role: inxi, output: "{{ qtip_results }}/sysinfo", tags: [run, inxi, sysinfo] }
+
+testing roles
+-------------
+
+Testing roles are organized by testing tools
+
+* inxi - system information tool
+* nDPI
+* openssl
+* ramspeed
+* unixbench
+
+supporting roles
+
+* opnfv-testapi - report result to testapi
+
+Tags
+====
+
+Tags are used to categorize the test tasks from different aspects.
+
+* stages like ``run``, ``collect``, ``calculate``, ``aggregate``, ``report``
+* test tools like ``inxi``, ``ndpi`` and etc
+* information or metrics like ``sysinfo``, ``dpi``, ``ssl``
+
+Use
+
+* ``ansible-playbook run.yml --list-tags`` to list all tags
+* ``ansible-playbook run.yml --list-tasks`` to list all tasks
+
+During development of post processing, you may skip ``run`` stage to save time, e.g.
+``ansible-playbook run.yml --tags collect,calculate,aggregate``
diff --git a/docs/testing/developer/devguide/index.rst b/docs/testing/developer/devguide/index.rst
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    overview.rst
    arch.rst
+   framework.rst
    cli.rst
    api.rst
    compute-qpi.rst