Hello!
I'm maintaner of jmeter-plugins project at Google Code and love writing JMeter plugins very much along with using this plugins at my work for complex load tests. I'd like to write my own Thread Group plugin with custom threads starting/stopping logic (step function like LoadRunner), but there's 2 problems: 1. Thread Groups does cannot be custom, there's fixed code for thread groups 2. Start/end time logic placed in JMeterStandardEngine, not ThreadGroup I can modify JMeterStandardEngine and ThreadGroup code to use new "Alternative Scheduling" option and send a patch to developers to include in Jmeter source code, but this is not so elegant way as regular jmeter plugins. Actually, for now it's the only way for me and I almost implemented it. But it's ugly way to have an improvement which I cannot share. I think the best way is make Thread Group regular plugin and delegate thread scheduling calculation logic to it, then anyone will be able to make any thread scheduling logic without impact on jmeter source code. What would you say? Best wishes, Andrey Pohilko
