JMeter Load Parameters in the UI

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How much load is applied when you lauch the load generator, with the checkbox in the screenshot below? 3t0tt -- 3 threads, zero think time. I chose this because its not too much, not too little. A single thread of load will never catch any multi-threaded defects. 2 threads will sometimes reproduce muti-threaded defects. But in my experience, three threads of load will reproduce multi-threaded defects most of the time, especially when the unit of work being executed is < 10-ish milliseconds.

The main two parameters I'd want are
count of threads to load and test duration.

Would be nice to provide some basic parameters for configuring this. For example, if you're experimenting with larger amounts of parallelism, you'll have to write your own threading code that launches threads. But if you could jack up the number of load generator threads to larger numbers, exploring larger parallelism would be easy/trivial.

Would be nice to have a few basic data entry controls for that just below the "Status: Stopped" for load generation.