[GitHub] [jmeter] vlsi opened a new issue, #5877: Deprecate User Defined Variables, and hide it from the menus

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vlsi opened a new issue, #5877:
URL: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/5877

   ### Expected behavior
   
   There should be a way to initialize variables at the beginning of the test.
   For instance:
   a) Initialize variables based on properties
   b) Set thread-group specific variables
   
   In JMeter, `variable` should have `thread` scope, and it is unexpected for 
the variables from different threads to interfere.
   The name `User Defined Variable` suggests that the config element configures 
variables, however, it configures **test plan** variables which is completely 
misleading
   
   ### Actual behavior
   
   Currently, `User Defined Variables` are replaced globally in the test plan 
which results in surprising behaviour. For instance, if several `User Defined 
Variables` located under different thread groups share a variable name, only 
one of the values win, and the same value is reused for all the threads.
   
   
   
   ### Steps to reproduce the problem
   
   <img width="577" alt="Test plan to reproduce the issue" 
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/213894/236209123-f3aee29a-c724-48f2-816f-f870df18543a.png";>
   
   
[udv_sharing.zip](https://github.com/apache/jmeter/files/11397627/udv_sharing.zip)
   
   
   ### JMeter Version
   
   5.5
   
   ### Java Version
   
   17
   
   ### OS Version
   
   _No response_


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