ST Media Framework Test Vector Creation, Updation and Automation of ST Media Framework Tests

Abstract

In Set Top Boxes, new applications support are coming day by day. When it comes to open source community then there is a need of a multimedia framework which pro- vide libraries to support applications developed on top of it. Applications are linked to plugins, provided by Gstreamer, to provide appropriate functionality. There are many tools provided by Gstreamer. Some of them are gst-apps, gst-inspect, gst-launch which are useful for different purposes. For example, gst-launch is used for debugging purposes to create pipeline manually by connecting all elements, likewise gst-inspect is used to get detail about a particular element etc. With implementation of all these tools, human efforts can be reduced. So, a study of all these tools is required. For each and every functionality developed using gst-apps, there is need to do re-gression testing to check that in built functionalities are not breaking which were developed earlier. To do so, some framework are designed using XML and PYTHON scripting, which are suitable to complete whole test procedure. For new Set Top box features, new test cases should be designed to check whether new functionalities are working or not.