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+#
+# Copyright 2016 the original author or authors.
+#
+# Licensed 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.
+#
+
+# set default shell
+SHELL = bash -e -o pipefail
+
+# Variables
+VERSION                    ?= $(shell cat ./VERSION)
+
+# Default is GO111MODULE=auto, which will refuse to use go mod if running
+# go less than 1.13.0 and this repository is checked out in GOPATH. For now,
+# force module usage. This affects commands executed from this Makefile, but
+# not the environment inside the Docker build (which does not build from
+# inside a GOPATH).
+export GO111MODULE=on
+
+.PHONY: local-protos
+
+# This should to be the first and default target in this Makefile
+help:
+	@echo "Usage: make [<target>]"
+	@echo "where available targets are:"
+	@echo
+	@echo "build                : Build the library"
+	@echo "clean                : Remove files created by the build"
+	@echo "distclean            : Remove build and testing artifacts and reports"
+	@echo "lint-style           : Verify code is properly gofmt-ed"
+	@echo "lint-sanity          : Verify that 'go vet' doesn't report any issues"
+	@echo "lint-mod             : Verify the integrity of the 'mod' files"
+	@echo "lint                 : Shorthand for lint-style & lint-sanity"
+	@echo "mod-update           : Update go.mod and the vendor directory"
+	@echo "test                 : Generate reports for all go tests"
+	@echo
+
+## Local Development Helpers
+local-protos:
+	@mkdir -p python/local_imports
+ifdef LOCAL_PROTOS
+	mkdir -p vendor/github.com/opencord/voltha-protos/go
+	cp -r ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/opencord/voltha-protos/go/* vendor/github.com/opencord/voltha-protos/go
+	rm -rf python/local_imports/voltha-protos
+	mkdir -p python/local_imports/voltha-protos/dist
+	cp ../voltha-protos/dist/*.tar.gz python/local_imports/voltha-protos/dist/
+endif
+
+## build the library
+build:
+	go build -mod=vendor ./...
+
+## lint and unit tests
+
+lint-style:
+ifeq (,$(shell which gofmt))
+	go get -u github.com/golang/go/src/cmd/gofmt
+endif
+	@echo "Running style check..."
+	@gofmt_out="$$(gofmt -l $$(find . -name '*.go' -not -path './vendor/*'))" ;\
+	if [ ! -z "$$gofmt_out" ]; then \
+	  echo "$$gofmt_out" ;\
+	  echo "Style check failed on one or more files ^, run 'go fmt' to fix." ;\
+	  exit 1 ;\
+	fi
+	@echo "Style check OK"
+
+lint-sanity:
+	@echo "Running sanity check..."
+	@go vet -mod=vendor ./...
+	@echo "Sanity check OK"
+
+lint-mod:
+	@echo "Running dependency check..."
+	@go mod verify
+	@echo "Dependency check OK"
+
+lint: lint-style lint-sanity lint-mod
+
+# Rules to automatically install golangci-lint
+GOLANGCI_LINT_TOOL?=$(shell which golangci-lint)
+ifeq (,$(GOLANGCI_LINT_TOOL))
+GOLANGCI_LINT_TOOL=$(GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint
+golangci_lint_tool_install:
+	# Same version as installed by Jenkins ci-management
+	# Note that install using `go get` is not recommended as per https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
+	curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh| sh -s -- -b $(GOPATH)/bin v1.17.0
+else
+golangci_lint_tool_install:
+endif
+
+# Rules to automatically install go-junit-report
+GO_JUNIT_REPORT?=$(shell which go-junit-report)
+ifeq (,$(GO_JUNIT_REPORT))
+GO_JUNIT_REPORT=$(GOPATH)/bin/go-junit-report
+go_junit_install:
+	go get -u github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report
+else
+go_junit_install:
+endif
+
+# Rules to automatically install gocover-covertura
+GOCOVER_COBERTURA?=$(shell which gocover-cobertura)
+ifeq (,$(GOCOVER_COBERTURA))
+	@GOCOVER_COBERTURA=$(GOPATH)/bin/gocover-cobertura
+gocover_cobertura_install:
+	go get -u github.com/t-yuki/gocover-cobertura
+else
+gocover_cobertura_install:
+endif
+
+sca: golangci_lint_tool_install
+	rm -rf ./sca-report
+	@mkdir -p ./sca-report
+	$(GOLANGCI_LINT_TOOL) run --out-format junit-xml ./... 2>&1 | tee ./sca-report/sca-report.xml
+
+test: go_junit_install gocover_cobertura_install
+	@mkdir -p ./tests/results
+	@go test -mod=vendor -v -coverprofile ./tests/results/go-test-coverage.out -covermode count ./... 2>&1 | tee ./tests/results/go-test-results.out ;\
+	RETURN=$$? ;\
+	$(GO_JUNIT_REPORT) < ./tests/results/go-test-results.out > ./tests/results/go-test-results.xml ;\
+	$(GOCOVER_COBERTURA) < ./tests/results/go-test-coverage.out > ./tests/results/go-test-coverage.xml ;\
+	exit $$RETURN
+
+clean:
+
+distclean: clean
+	rm -rf ./sca_report ./tests
+
+mod-update: build
+	go mod tidy
+	go mod vendor
+
+# end file