Hi, I have colleagues that do heavy JMeter scripting and they come with idea to speed-up the process: have hotkeys to add JMeter components to test plan. Using a hotkey eliminates the need to walk through context menus. As always, Pareto principle states that 80% of a time people use 20% of components, so small set of hotkeys would cover most of situations.
I have implemented this feature as Ctrl+0 .. Ctrl+9 hotkey set, with components configurable through properties. Components are added as a child of current position, if possible, or a sibling at the nearest possible scope. I provided my colleagues with patched JMeter and they found the feature working smoothly. Pull request for easy review is here: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/16 , I will create bugzilla for this when needed. As always I ask if other committers support adding this into main JMeter codebase or not. Some notes/questions from my side: * Where is appropriate place in the docs to document this feature? * Are defaults good? What are most used JMeter components? * Is there a way to specify component names in properties instead of classes? * On my Linux Ctrl+9 does not work for some reason... I wonder if somebody knows why. -- Andrey Pokhilko
