The understanding of fatigue and cracking phenomena is crucial to design more durable asphalt pavements. For this purpose UGR-Fact test has been recently developed. This paper describes this test method that consists of a device that is able to simulate traffic loading and climatic stresses in asphalt pavement at laboratory scale. The asphalt material is performed through a controlled fatigue cracking process that allows the analysis of the cracking propagation in the initiation, progression and failure stages. Among its main advantages to highlight: the test can be carried out in stress or strain controlled mode, it allows the study of laboratory specimens and also cores from pavements, multi-layers section can be analysed, it is easy to reproduce at a low economic cost. On the other hand the use of dissipated energy concepts in material fatigue processes establishes a series of parameters that accurately define the fatigue cracking performance of a bituminous mix