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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) OPNFV, Ericsson AB and others.
+
+=========
+Yardstick
+=========
+
+.. _Yardstick: https://wiki.opnfv.org/yardstick
+.. _Presentation: https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/opnfv_summit_-_yardstick_project.pdf
+.. _NFV-TST001: https://docbox.etsi.org/ISG/NFV/Open/Drafts/TST001_-_Pre-deployment_Validation/
+.. _Yardsticktst: https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/opnfv_summit_-_bridging_opnfv_and_etsi.pdf
+
+The project's goal is to verify infrastructure compliance, from the perspective
+of a Virtual Network Function (VNF).
+
+The Project's scope is the development of a test framework, *Yardstick*, test
+cases and test stimuli to enable Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
+(NFVI) verification.
+
+In OPNFV Brahmaputra release, generic test cases covering aspects of the
+metrics in the document ETSI GS NFV-TST001_, "Pre-deployment Testing; Report on
+Validation of NFV Environments and Services" are available; further OPNFV
+releases will provide extended testing of these metrics.
+
+The Project also includes a sample VNF, the Virtual Traffic Classifier (VTC)
+and its experimental framework, *ApexLake*.
+
+*Yardstick* is used in OPNFV for verifying the OPNFV infrastructure and some of
+the OPNFV features. The *Yardstick* framework is deployed in several OPNFV
+community labs. It is *installer*, *infrastructure* and *application*
+independent.
+
+
+.. seealso:: This Presentation_ for an overview of *Yardstick* and
+   Yardsticktst_ for material on alignment ETSI TST001 and Yardstick.