/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/manual/fate.html is in ffmpeg-doc 7:3.4.2-2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 | <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>
FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment
</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>
FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment
</h1>
<div align="center">
</div>
<a name="Top"></a>
<a name="SEC_Top"></a>
<a name="SEC_Contents"></a>
<h2 class="contents-heading">Table of Contents</h2>
<div class="contents">
<ul class="no-bullet">
<li><a name="toc-Introduction" href="#Introduction">1 Introduction</a></li>
<li><a name="toc-Using-FATE-from-your-FFmpeg-source-directory" href="#Using-FATE-from-your-FFmpeg-source-directory">2 Using FATE from your FFmpeg source directory</a></li>
<li><a name="toc-Submitting-the-results-to-the-FFmpeg-result-aggregation-server" href="#Submitting-the-results-to-the-FFmpeg-result-aggregation-server">3 Submitting the results to the FFmpeg result aggregation server</a></li>
<li><a name="toc-FATE-makefile-targets-and-variables" href="#FATE-makefile-targets-and-variables">4 FATE makefile targets and variables</a>
<ul class="no-bullet">
<li><a name="toc-Makefile-targets" href="#Makefile-targets">4.1 Makefile targets</a></li>
<li><a name="toc-Makefile-variables" href="#Makefile-variables">4.2 Makefile variables</a></li>
<li><a name="toc-Examples" href="#Examples">4.3 Examples</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</div>
<a name="Introduction"></a>
<h2 class="chapter">1 Introduction<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Introduction" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Introduction" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h2>
<p>FATE is an extended regression suite on the client-side and a means
for results aggregation and presentation on the server-side.
</p>
<p>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.
</p>
<p>In any way you can have a look at the publicly viewable FATE results
by visiting this website:
</p>
<p><a href="http://fate.ffmpeg.org/">http://fate.ffmpeg.org/</a>
</p>
<p>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 their recent contribution. This usually happens on the platforms
the developers could not test on.
</p>
<p>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.
</p>
<p>In the third part you can find a comprehensive listing of FATE makefile
targets and variables.
</p>
<a name="Using-FATE-from-your-FFmpeg-source-directory"></a>
<h2 class="chapter">2 Using FATE from your FFmpeg source directory<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Using-FATE-from-your-FFmpeg-source-directory" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Using-FATE-from-your-FFmpeg-source-directory" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h2>
<p>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:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">make fate-rsync SAMPLES=fate-suite/
make fate SAMPLES=fate-suite/
</pre></div>
<p>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
<samp>--samples=<path to the samples directory></samp>. Afterwards you can
invoke the makefile targets without setting the <var>SAMPLES</var> makefile
variable. This is illustrated by the following commands:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">./configure --samples=fate-suite/
make fate-rsync
make fate
</pre></div>
<p>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.
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">FATE_SAMPLES=fate-suite/ make fate
</pre></div>
<div class="info">
<p>Do not put a ’~’ character in the samples path to indicate a home
directory. Because of shell nuances, this will cause FATE to fail.
</p></div>
<p>To use a custom wrapper to run the test, pass <samp>--target-exec</samp> to
<code>configure</code> or set the <var>TARGET_EXEC</var> Make variable.
</p>
<a name="Submitting-the-results-to-the-FFmpeg-result-aggregation-server"></a>
<h2 class="chapter">3 Submitting the results to the FFmpeg result aggregation server<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Submitting-the-results-to-the-FFmpeg-result-aggregation-server" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Submitting-the-results-to-the-FFmpeg-result-aggregation-server" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h2>
<p>To submit your results to the server you should run fate through the
shell script <samp>tests/fate.sh</samp> from the FFmpeg sources. This script needs
to be invoked with a configuration file as its first argument.
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">tests/fate.sh /path/to/fate_config
</pre></div>
<p>A configuration file template with comments describing the individual
configuration variables can be found at <samp>doc/fate_config.sh.template</samp>.
</p>
<p>The mentioned configuration template is also available here:
</p><pre class="verbatim">slot= # some unique identifier
repo=git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git # the source repository
#branch=release/2.6 # the branch to test
samples= # path to samples directory
workdir= # directory in which to do all the work
#fate_recv="ssh -T fate@fate.ffmpeg.org" # command to submit report
comment= # optional description
build_only= # set to "yes" for a compile-only instance that skips tests
ignore_tests=
# the following are optional and map to configure options
arch=
cpu=
cross_prefix=
as=
cc=
ld=
target_os=
sysroot=
target_exec=
target_path=
target_samples=
extra_cflags=
extra_ldflags=
extra_libs=
extra_conf= # extra configure options not covered above
#make= # name of GNU make if not 'make'
makeopts= # extra options passed to 'make'
#makeopts_fate= # extra options passed to 'make' when running tests,
# defaulting to makeopts above if this is not set
#tar= # command to create a tar archive from its arguments on stdout,
# defaults to 'tar c'
</pre>
<p>Create a configuration that suits your needs, based on the configuration
template. The <code>slot</code> configuration variable can be any string that is not
yet used, but it is suggested that you name it adhering to the following
pattern ‘<samp><var>arch</var>-<var>os</var>-<var>compiler</var>-<var>compiler version</var></samp>’. 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.
</p>
<p>For your first test runs the <code>fate_recv</code> 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:
</p>
<ul>
<li> configure.log
</li><li> compile.log
</li><li> test.log
</li><li> report
</li><li> version
</li></ul>
<p>When you have everything working properly you can create an SSH key pair
and send the public key to the FATE server administrator who can be contacted
at the email address <a href="mailto:fate-admin@ffmpeg.org">fate-admin@ffmpeg.org</a>.
</p>
<p>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:
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt>‘<samp>RSA</samp>’</dt>
<dd><p>d3:f1:83:97:a4:75:2b:a6:fb:d6:e8:aa:81:93:97:51
</p></dd>
<dt>‘<samp>ECDSA</samp>’</dt>
<dd><p>76:9f:68:32:04:1e:d5:d4:ec:47:3f:dc:fc:18:17:86
</p></dd>
</dl>
<p>If you have problems connecting to the FATE server, it may help to try out
the <code>ssh</code> command with one or more <samp>-v</samp> options. You should
get detailed output concerning your SSH configuration and the authentication
process.
</p>
<p>The only thing left is to automate the execution of the fate.sh script and
the synchronisation of the samples directory.
</p>
<a name="FATE-makefile-targets-and-variables"></a>
<h2 class="chapter">4 FATE makefile targets and variables<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#FATE-makefile-targets-and-variables" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-FATE-makefile-targets-and-variables" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h2>
<a name="Makefile-targets"></a>
<h3 class="section">4.1 Makefile targets<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Makefile-targets" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Makefile-targets" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h3>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt><samp>fate-rsync</samp></dt>
<dd><p>Download/synchronize sample files to the configured samples directory.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><samp>fate-list</samp></dt>
<dd><p>Will list all fate/regression test targets.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><samp>fate</samp></dt>
<dd><p>Run the FATE test suite (requires the fate-suite dataset).
</p></dd>
</dl>
<a name="Makefile-variables"></a>
<h3 class="section">4.2 Makefile variables<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Makefile-variables" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Makefile-variables" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h3>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt><code>V</code></dt>
<dd><p>Verbosity level, can be set to 0, 1 or 2.
</p><ul>
<li> 0: show just the test arguments
</li><li> 1: show just the command used in the test
</li><li> 2: show everything
</li></ul>
</dd>
<dt><code>SAMPLES</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify or override the path to the FATE samples at make time, it has a
meaning only while running the regression tests.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>THREADS</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify how many threads to use while running regression tests, it is
quite useful to detect thread-related regressions.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>THREAD_TYPE</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify which threading strategy test, either ‘<samp>slice</samp>’ or ‘<samp>frame</samp>’,
by default ‘<samp>slice+frame</samp>’
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>CPUFLAGS</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify CPU flags.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>TARGET_EXEC</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify or override the wrapper used to run the tests.
The <code>TARGET_EXEC</code> option provides a way to run FATE wrapped in
<code>valgrind</code>, <code>qemu-user</code> or <code>wine</code> or on remote targets
through <code>ssh</code>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>GEN</code></dt>
<dd><p>Set to ‘<samp>1</samp>’ to generate the missing or mismatched references.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>HWACCEL</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specify which hardware acceleration to use while running regression tests,
by default ‘<samp>none</samp>’ is used.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="Examples"></a>
<h3 class="section">4.3 Examples<span class="pull-right"><a class="anchor hidden-xs" href="#Examples" aria-hidden="true">#</a> <a class="anchor hidden-xs"href="#toc-Examples" aria-hidden="true">TOC</a></span></h3>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">make V=1 SAMPLES=/var/fate/samples THREADS=2 CPUFLAGS=mmx fate
</pre></div>
<p style="font-size: small;">
This document was generated using <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"><em>makeinfo</em></a>.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
|