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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (C) 2020 The Android Open Source Project
+
+    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.
+-->
+<!-- This test config file is auto-generated. -->
+<configuration description="Config for running {MODULE} through Atest or in Infra">
+    <option name="test-suite-tag" value="{MODULE}" />
+
+    {EXTRA_CONFIGS}
+
+    <!-- This test requires a device, so it's not annotated with a null-device. -->
+    <test class="com.android.tradefed.testtype.binary.ExecutableHostTest" >
+        <option name="binary" value="{OUTPUT_FILENAME}" />
+        <!-- Test script assumes a relative path with the tests/ folders. -->
+        <option name="relative-path-execution" value="true" />
+        <!-- Tests shouldn't be that long but set 15m to be safe. -->
+        <option name="per-binary-timeout" value="15m" />
+    </test>
+</configuration>
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