# Test timings can't be found

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/test-timings-cant-be-found/33702>\
**Category:** Build Environment\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/test-timings-cant-be-found/33702 "2019-12-12T11:21:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlukjanska25f](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mlukjanska25f](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/mlukjanska25f)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/test-timings-cant-be-found/33702/11 "2020-02-07T11:20:17Z")

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For us in the end the issue was that CircleCI was expecting relative paths to tests in the xml report, but our report had absolute paths (kudos to [Split by timing parallelism does not seem to balance out](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/split-by-timing-parallelism-does-not-seem-to-balance-out/26994/4)).

The message that the CircleCi was giving for splitting:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/3/5/35186fa17b5b15aa7083e78b9bcfd3439f4a9264.png)

So it looks that internally they store something like  
`tests/integration/NameOfTest.php`

In our xml report it was the absolute path (/root/project/…):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/0/d/0d08a1aadac46c4aa3bacbafdeaae43f04094c78.png)

Once we cleaned up the report using the command below to remove the absolute part before storing it as test result/artifact, the timings started to be autodetected:  
`command: sed -i 's/\/root\/project\///g' tests/_output/integration/result.xml`

Here how our test splitting started to look like after:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/1/9/19985b1d446a5f39be947dee9df8ab9c20553354.png)

Note: We are not using flag `--timings-type=classname` and feeding the list of tests from the file. So the command looks something like this:  
`command: circleci tests split --split-by=timings --show-counts tests/integration/_circleci_tests_list.txt | xargs -n 1 echo`

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