/* * Bucketing wrapper for creating AB-tests. * * Given a test name, sampling rate, and session ID, provides a class that buckets a user into * a predefined bucket ("unsampled", "control", or "treatment") and starts an AB-test. */ ( function ( mwExperiments ) { var bucket = { UNSAMPLED: 'unsampled', // Old treatment: not sampled and not instrumented. CONTROL: 'control', // Old treatment: sampled and instrumented. TREATMENT: 'treatment' // New treatment: sampled and instrumented. }; /** * Buckets users based on params and exposes an `isSampled` and `getBucket` method. * * @param {Object} config Configuration object for AB test. * @param {string} config.testName * @param {number} config.samplingRate Sampling rate for the AB-test. * @param {number} config.sessionId Session ID for user bucketing. * @constructor */ function AB( config ) { var testName = config.testName, samplingRate = config.samplingRate, sessionId = config.sessionId, test = { name: testName, enabled: !!samplingRate, buckets: { unsampled: 1 - samplingRate, control: samplingRate / 2, treatment: samplingRate / 2 } }; /** * Gets the users AB-test bucket. * * A boolean instead of an enum is usually a code smell. However, the nature of A/B testing * is to compare an A group's performance to a B group's so a boolean seems natural, even * in the long term, and preferable to showing bucketing encoding ("unsampled", "control", * "treatment") to callers which is necessary if getBucket(). The downside is that now two * functions exist where one would suffice. * * @private * @return {string} AB-test bucket, `bucket.UNSAMPLED` by default, `bucket.CONTROL` or * `bucket.TREATMENT` buckets otherwise. */ function getBucket() { return mwExperiments.getBucket( test, sessionId ); } function isControl() { return getBucket() === bucket.CONTROL; } function isTreatment() { return getBucket() === bucket.TREATMENT; } /** * Checks whether or not a user is in the AB-test, * * @private * @return {boolean} */ function isSampled() { return getBucket() !== bucket.UNSAMPLED; // I.e., `isControl() || isTreatment()` } return { isControl: isControl, isTreatment: isTreatment, isSampled: isSampled }; } module.exports = AB; }( mw.experiments ) );