Introduction
To ensure that Drake enables downstream consumption, there are downstream tests that show basic usage of Drake as a dependency. Those tests are located in the drake-external-examples repository.
Continuous Integration
Please see the drake-external-examples Continuous Integration section.
Local Testing
For CMake, see the drake_cmake_installed example.
For Bazel, see the drake_bazel_external example, and note the comment in WORKSPACE which mentions using something like local_repository to consume a local checkout of Drake.