[v8,2/9] dts: add developer tools

diff --git a/devtools/dts-check-format.sh b/devtools/dts-check-format.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5a1e495634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devtools/dts-check-format.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ 
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2022 University of New Hampshire
+
+usage() {
+    echo "Run formatting and linting programs for DTS. Usage:"
+
+    # Get source code comments after getopts arguments and print them both
+    grep -E '[a-zA-Z]+\) +#' "$0" | tr -d '#'
+    exit 0
+}
+
+format=true
+lint=true
+
+# Comments after args serve as documentation; must be present
+while getopts "hfl" arg; do
+    case $arg in
+    h) # Display this message
+        usage
+        ;;
+    f) # Don't run formatters
+        format=false
+        ;;
+    l) # Don't run linter
+        lint=false
+        ;;
+    *)
+    esac
+done
+
+
+errors=0
+
+if $format; then
+    if command -v git > /dev/null; then
+        if git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >&-; then
+            echo "Formatting:"
+            if command -v black > /dev/null; then
+                echo "Formatting code with black:"
+                black .
+            else
+                echo "black is not installed, not formatting"
+                errors=$((errors + 1))
+            fi
+            if command -v isort > /dev/null; then
+                echo "Sorting imports with isort:"
+                isort .
+            else
+                echo "isort is not installed, not sorting imports"
+                errors=$((errors + 1))
+            fi
+
+            git update-index --refresh
+            retval=$?
+            if [ $retval -ne 0 ]; then
+                echo 'The "needs update" files have been reformatted.'
+                echo 'Please update your commit.'
+            fi
+            errors=$((errors + retval))
+        else
+            echo ".git directory not found, not formatting code"
+            errors=$((errors + 1))
+        fi
+    else
+        echo "git command not found, not formatting code"
+        errors=$((errors + 1))
+    fi
+fi
+
+if $lint; then
+    if $format; then
+        echo
+    fi
+    echo "Linting:"
+    if command -v pylama > /dev/null; then
+        pylama .
+        errors=$((errors + $?))
+    else
+        echo "pylama not found, unable to run linter"
+        errors=$((errors + 1))
+    fi
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Found $errors errors"
+exit $errors
diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/dts.rst b/doc/guides/tools/dts.rst
index 0a88901119..5f67391145 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/dts.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/dts.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,44 @@  The DPDK Test Suite, abbreviated DTS, is a Python test framework with test suite
 implementing functional and performance tests used to test DPDK.
 
 
+DTS Terminology
+---------------
+
+DTS node
+   A generic description of any host/server DTS connects to.
+
+DTS runtime environment
+   An environment containing Python with packages needed to run DTS.
+
+DTS runtime environment node
+  A node where at least one DTS runtime environment is present.
+  This is the node where we run DTS and from which DTS connects to other nodes.
+
+System under test
+  An SUT is the combination of DPDK and the hardware we're testing
+  in conjunction with DPDK (NICs, crypto and other devices).
+
+System under test node
+  A node where at least one SUT is present.
+
+Traffic generator
+  A TG is either software or hardware capable of sending packets.
+
+Traffic generator node
+  A node where at least one TG is present.
+  In case of hardware traffic generators, the TG and the node are literally the same.
+
+
+In most cases, interchangeably referring to a runtime environment, SUT, TG or the node
+they're running on (e.g. using SUT and SUT node interchangeably) doesn't cause confusion.
+There could theoretically be more than of these running on the same node and in that case
+it's useful to have stricter definitions.
+An example would be two different traffic generators (such as Trex and Scapy)
+running on the same node.
+A different example would be a node containing both a DTS runtime environment
+and a traffic generator, in which case it's both a DTS runtime environment node and a TG node.
+
+
 DTS Environment
 ---------------
 
@@ -54,3 +92,32 @@  Setting up DTS environment
 
       poetry install
       poetry shell
+
+
+DTS Developer Tools
+-------------------
+
+There are three tools used in DTS to help with code checking, style and formatting:
+
+* `isort <https://pycqa.github.io/isort/>`_
+
+  Alphabetically sorts python imports within blocks.
+
+* `black <https://github.com/psf/black>`_
+
+  Does most of the actual formatting (whitespaces, comments, line length etc.)
+  and works similarly to clang-format.
+
+* `pylama <https://github.com/klen/pylama>`_
+
+  Runs a collection of python linters and aggregates output.
+  It will run these tools over the repository:
+
+  .. literalinclude:: ../../../dts/pyproject.toml
+     :language: cfg
+     :start-after: [tool.pylama]
+     :end-at: linters
+
+These three tools are all used in ``devtools/dts-check-format.sh``,
+the DTS code check and format script.
+Refer to the script for usage: ``devtools/dts-check-format.sh -h``