kevinnammour opened a new issue, #3249:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/issues/3249
### New feature, improvement proposal
**Summary**
Add an explicit start timestamp field to the Surefire XML reports at both:
- testsuite level
- testcase level
The timestamp should represent the **exact start time of execution** for
each test suite and each individual test case.
**Problem Statement**
Currently, Surefire XML reports provide:
- test duration (time)
- counts (tests, failures, skipped, etc.)
However, they do not expose the start time of:
- a test suite
- an individual test case
This makes it difficult to correlate test execution with time-based external
signals, such as:
- CPU usage
- memory consumption
- I/O pressure
- JVM metrics
- system-level monitoring data
**Proposed Enhancement**
```
testsuite
name="com.example.MyTest"
timestamp="2026-01-29T06:41:12.345Z"
time="12.345">
<testcase
name="shouldProcessData"
classname="com.example.MyTest"
timestamp="2026-01-29T06:41:15.123Z"
time="0.456">
.......
```
- Timestamp should represent test execution start time
- ISO‑8601 format (UTC) is recommended for interoperability
- Backward compatible: additive, optional field
**Motivation & Use Cases**
Fine‑Grained Performance & Resource Monitoring
**Current Workaround**
At the moment, we are using a custom JUnit listener to capture test start
times and emit them separately.
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