Save history does not work

My current work around is as follow:

• Clean before each run
• Save the history within the default folder (under "target")
• Add an Ant "copy" task to copy the history file to an external folder (in the root of the project)
• Configure the history report to read files from the external folder

I find this really odd.

The filename should be something like history-*************.xml, with a lot of numbers representing System.currenttimemillis() at the time that the testrun was started.

First: Are You aware that You do not need to copy with an ant task. By configuring historydir, You can change it to eg $

/chronos-history instead of using the default (which saves history under target). You might argue that the default should be changed.

Second: Are You certain that the content of the historyfile is really changed, and not just the timestamp in the filesystem? If You invoke 'mvn install' several times, there may only be a single testrun. If the jmeter output is already there, it will only be regenerated, if the jmeter scriptfile '.jxm' is changed. This is to avoid running the perofrmancetest twice, if the user runs 'mvn install site'. So what You might see, is chronos creating a historyfile representing the exact same testrun twice - and thus reusing the timestamp.

John has not replied in 5 months. We conclude it may have been a user problem?