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  WavPack demuxer: set packet duration
  tta: use skip_bits_long()
  mxfdec: Ignore the last entry in Avid's index table segments
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  mxfdec: Don't crash in mxf_packet_timestamps() if current_edit_unit overflows
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\input texinfo @c -*- texinfo -*-
@settitle FATE Automated Testing Environment
@titlepage
@center @titlefont{FATE Automated Testing Environment}
@end titlepage
@node Top
@top
@contents
@chapter Introduction
FATE is an extended regression suite on the client-side and a means
for results aggregation and presentation on the server-side.
The first part of this document explains how you can use FATE from
your FFmpeg source directory to test your ffmpeg binary. The second
part describes how you can run FATE to submit the results to FFmpeg's
FATE server.
In any way you can have a look at the publicly viewable FATE results
by visiting this website:
@url{http://fate.ffmpeg.org/}
This is especially recommended for all people contributing source
code to FFmpeg, as it can be seen if some test on some platform broke
with there recent contribution. This usually happens on the platforms
the developers could not test on.
The second part of this document describes how you can run FATE to
submit your results to FFmpeg's FATE server. If you want to submit your
results be sure to check that your combination of CPU, OS and compiler
is not already listed on the above mentioned website.
In the third part you can find a comprehensive listing of FATE makefile
targets and variables.
@chapter Using FATE from your FFmpeg source directory
If you want to run FATE on your machine you need to have the samples
in place. You can get the samples via the build target fate-rsync.
Use this command from the top-level source directory:
@example
make fate-rsync SAMPLES=fate-suite/
make fate SAMPLES=fate-suite/
@end example
The above commands set the samples location by passing a makefile
variable via command line. It is also possible to set the samples
location at source configuration time by invoking configure with
`--samples=<path to the samples directory>'. Afterwards you can
invoke the makefile targets without setting the SAMPLES makefile
variable. This is illustrated by the following commands:
@example
./configure --samples=fate-suite/
make fate-rsync
make fate
@end example
Yet another way to tell FATE about the location of the sample
directory is by making sure the environment variable FATE_SAMPLES
contains the path to your samples directory. This can be achieved
by e.g. putting that variable in your shell profile or by setting
it in your interactive session.
@example
FATE_SAMPLES=fate-suite/ make fate
@end example
@float NOTE
Do not put a '~' character in the samples path to indicate a home
directory. Because of shell nuances, this will cause FATE to fail.
@end float
@chapter Submitting the results to the FFmpeg result aggregation server
To submit your results to the server you should run fate through the
shell script tests/fate.sh from the FFmpeg sources. This script needs
to be invoked with a configuration file as its first argument.
@example
tests/fate.sh /path/to/fate_config
@end example
A configuration file template with comments describing the individual
configuration variables can be found at @file{tests/fate_config.sh.template}.
@ifhtml
The mentioned configuration template is also available here:
@verbatiminclude ../tests/fate_config.sh.template
@end ifhtml
Create a configuration that suits your needs, based on the configuration
template. The `slot' configuration variable can be any string that is not
yet used, but it is suggested that you name it adhering to the following
pattern <arch>-<os>-<compiler>-<compiler version>. The configuration file
itself will be sourced in a shell script, therefore all shell features may
be used. This enables you to setup the environment as you need it for your
build.
For your first test runs the `fate_recv' variable should be empty or
commented out. This will run everything as normal except that it will omit
the submission of the results to the server. The following files should be
present in $workdir as specified in the configuration file:
@itemize
@item configure.log
@item compile.log
@item test.log
@item report
@item version
@end itemize
When you have everything working properly you can create an SSH key and
send its public part to the FATE server administrator.
Configure your SSH client to use public key authentication with that key
when connecting to the FATE server. Also do not forget to check the identity
of the server and to accept its host key. This can usually be achieved by
running your SSH client manually and killing it after you accepted the key.
The FATE server's fingerprint is:
b1:31:c8:79:3f:04:1d:f8:f2:23:26:5a:fd:55:fa:92
The only thing left is to automate the execution of the fate.sh script and
the synchronisation of the samples directory.
@chapter FATE makefile targets and variables
@section Makefile targets
@table @option
@item fate-rsync
Download/synchronize sample files to the configured samples directory.
@item fate-list
Will list all fate/regression test targets.
@item fate
Run the FATE test suite (requires the fate-suite dataset).
@end table
@section Makefile variables
@table @option
@item V
Verbosity level, can be set to 0, 1 or 2.
@itemize
@item 0: show just the test arguments
@item 1: show just the command used in the test
@item 2: show everything
@end itemize
@item SAMPLES
Specify or override the path to the FATE samples at make time, it has a
meaning only while running the regression tests.
@item THREADS
Specify how many threads to use while running regression tests, it is
quite useful to detect thread-related regressions.
@end table
Example:
@example
make V=1 SAMPLES=/var/fate/samples THREADS=2 fate
@end example