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+# kind-voltha testing Makefile
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+SHELL = bash -eu -o pipefail
+
+.DEFAULT_GOAL := help
+.PHONY: test shellcheck yamllint jsonlint help
+
+test: ## run all tests
+	@echo "No tests enabled yet"
+
+SHELL_FILES := voltha $(wildcard releases/*) $(wildcard scripts/*)
+shellcheck: ## check shell scripts with shellcheck
+	shellcheck --version
+	echo shellcheck $(SHELL_FILES)
+
+YAML_FILES ?= $(shell find . -type f \( -name '*.yaml' -o -name '*.yml' -o -name '*.cfg' \) -print )
+yamllint: ## lint check YAML files with yamllint
+	yamllint --version
+	yamllint \
+    -d "{extends: default, rules: {line-length: {max: 99}}}" \
+    -s $(YAML_FILES)
+
+JSON_FILES ?= $(shell find . -type f -name '*.json' -print )
+jsonlint: ## lint check JSON files with yamllint
+	echo "Not supported yet, would check these files: $(JSON_FILES)"
+
+help: ## Print help for each target
+	@echo kind-voltha Makefile targets
+	@echo
+	@grep '^[[:alpha:]_-]*:.* ##' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) \
+    | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":.* ## "}; {printf "%-25s %s\n", $$1, $$2};'