FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment

FATE (FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment) is an extended regression testing platform developed by FFmpeg. It operates like a continuous integration platform like ​Jenkins and ​Hudson.

It is splitted in to two parts:

• On the client side, it involves building FFmpeg, comparing the output of a specific test with a reference file, and then aggregating the results into a report.
• On the server side, the reports are submitted from clients, and then displayed on ​http://fate.ffmpeg.org. The server software, fateserver, is hosted on ​git://git.ffmpeg.org/fateserver^​GitHub.

The current coverage of the FATE test suite, generated by ​lcov, is available at ​http://coverage.ffmpeg.org/.

Unlike public CI services like Travis CI, FATE test results come directly from developers' private machines. That being said, you can help the FFmpeg project by donating odd systems for us to test on or running the test suite on your own machine.

Documentation

• For instructions on running the tests, see ​http://ffmpeg.org/fate.html.
• For instructions on running fateserver, see FATE/Fateserver.
• For help viewing ​http://fate.ffmpeg.org, see FATE/Website
• WIP. See #3438. For instructions on adding a FATE test (for developers), see FATE/AddingATest.
• For help on generating a coverage report of the FATE suite (like the ​official one), see FATE/TestingCoverage.

Needed fate clients

• See ​https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?status=!closed&keywords=~fateclient