have to know start and end time of testcase

Question

we are using red-hat enterprise Linux server 5.3, we run some testcase in red-hat how could find the start and end time of the testcases in server,please guide me.

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
date
./your-script-to-run-the-test-cases
date

Alternatively, if you want to just see how long it took to run, use time:

time ./your-script-to-run-the-test-cases

Answer 2

If you are looking to find time that was taken for a test case you can do the following :-

(time sh -c "sh my_script_for_test_case_execution") 2>&1 | grep "real" | awk '{print $(NF)}'

This data will give you the exact time consumed for test case execution in min.sec format.