Hi Vladimir,

"if jmx is stored in a Git repository (GitLab? GitHub?), then markdown would be 
much easier to review in diffs than HTML"
^ did you mean the export as "xml" instead of "jmx"?

I agree with your point. However, I'm not sure what's the use of tracking diffs 
in a Test Plan export (version control, in essence), because we would likely 
have the JMX (JMeter "script") itself in version control and, thus, fully 
tracked in terms of diffs.

I reckon it might be useful to keep exporting both Test-Results *and* 
Test-Plan-Summary for test runs. Then, later, it would be useful to compare 
Test-Plan-Summaries between test runs. However, I'm not sure this warrants the 
extra "ease" of comparing XML vs comparing HTML. In fact, I'm not even sure it 
would be "easier" to compare XML - we'd need some kind of tool for that and, 
more importantly, the ability to interpret the meaning of the XML elements, 
which might or might not be trivial, but will certainly be daunting for the 
less tech-savvy person.

If a few whole XML sections dis/appear from one file to another, .., the 
comparison can be quite hard to interpret - I've been running into that myself 
with version diffs for our JMX files when reviewing the Git commits.

Maybe you're right, if it was HTML it would be much harder to spot differences. 
Though I'm sceptical of the usefulness of that being of more value than the 
usefulness of having a graphical (HTML) way to see the test.

Also, if we export a test-plan pattern to XML, I reckon that pretty much rules 
out the shareability of such exported documents with non-technical people...




Regards,
Paulo Augusto Maia Borges
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From: Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]>
Sent: 21 January 2019 10:04
To: ApacheJMeter dev list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New feature : Readable overview of Test Plan
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