Was wondering how best to track/log start & end times for a load test within JMeter, in case one doesn't adamantly (and manually) note down the times. Still important even when you have a fixed test duration as you need to know what times the test ran to correlate logs.
I notice that JMeter's tabular data in the GUI, when saved as CSV via Save Table Data button does not log any timestamps for start/end of test. Similarly, unless I misconfigured settings, seems the CSV output of data (reported in Summary Report or Aggregate Graph) that is set to save to file when test runs also does not log start/end times, but it does have a timestamp column, but hard to decipher for me. Haven't checked the XML output version, but XML is rather verbose, and I would prefer a condensed CSV of results instead. And the JMeter graphs, including the JMeter plugins at http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-plugins/ also don't seem to display start/end times other than test duration span in minute/seconds on the X-axis. Feedback appreciated. Thanks, David
