Load Testing with Thread Strategy

Hey all,

I have some questions regarding "Thread Strategy".

a) In the settings of Thread Strategy there are three input boxes regarding:

Threads, Start Threads , End Threads

What is the first input box stands for?

My understanding is that the load test will start with <Start Threads> and finish with <End Threads>. So why the first setting is required?

b) Having the default settings the statistics should be reset every time the thread count change. All the statistics are reset, including the "cnt" column?

c) Also again in the results the "TPS" column refers (again with the default settings) to the last thread count. So if we have a result of 1TPS with "End Threads" == 10 , this would mean that we actually have 10 TPS in total at the end of the test?

b) Using the commandline tool, can we somehow get the TPS when the thread count changes? Or maybe have an array of TPS values ? Using the command line tool we get only a table with the end results. Is this a feature of soap UI Pro?

Best Regards,
Antony Mandilas