A/B Testing in Firefox for Android

[Eric Rescorla]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Martin Thomson <mt at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Mark Finkle <mfinkle at mozilla.com> wrote:
> > We only intend to use this when the experiment is in a code path that
> > happens very early in application startup. We lose all ability to
> > dynamically alter the configuration and code path if we use this
> approach.
> > Any changes must be landed in the client application.
>
>
> I'm not sure that I understand your concern here.  If you were to
> publish the low and high values for a given experiment, then you do
> commit to using CRC32 (and low and high markers), but that's not a
> problem in an of itself.  After all, you could include an indicator
> that describes how the buckets are calculated if you wanted to allow
> for some flexibility.
>
> If the concern is that you won't be able to update rapidly, I'd
> suggest that you might want to look at pushing updates rather than
> rely on clients polling.


I don't follow what the issue is here either with using client-side
decisioning.

-Ekr
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