Trade Federation is distributed with the AOSP and uses the Android build system to create its binary. Make sure you've established a build environment to compile and run packages from the Android source tree.

Build TradeFed

From the root directory of the Android source tree:

source ./build/make/envsetup.sh
lunch <device-target>
make tradefed-all -j8

Run from the Command Line

TradeFed requires the adb utility in your $PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:<path/to/adb>

Once TradeFed is built, the tradefed.sh launcher script is accessible from your path. To launch the Trade Federation console:

tradefed.sh

Now your environment is set up for Trade Federation.