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I find JMeter's UX and documentation impenetrable. Every time I've sat down and tried to use it I've basically given up and just ended up writing some custom code to run load and soak tests.

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Did you try to use it or did you go through a tutorial? I find going through a tutorial on it was necessary, you aren't going to learn via intuitiveness. Once you "get" it it's pretty good.

I'd love a version that worked better with source control though.

that worked better with source control though.

How so?

Merging is always hard in any machine generated file. I'd prefer to drive it with a proper script rather than the current ui generated xml file.

Taurus sort of does this. http://gettaurus.org/

I'll put it on my list to investigate.

I agree with that. JMeter's specific XML structure is GROSS. sibling elements when it really represents a parent/child relationship, etc...

I had forgotten about all that grossness.

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