ParseConfig with A/B Testing

[supercharger]

The SDK's ParseConfig documentation claims remote configs with A/B Testing feature. But I don't see support for A/B testing in the parse-server or the Dashboard.

Can you please let us know if this feature is implemented ( need doc on how to use it ) or if not the SDK documentation needs to be updated.

[flovilmart]

You don't A/B test your config, but you could store in your config for ex:

experiment1 = { a: "some value", b: "other value" }

Then in the clients read the values for those experiments.

[supercharger]

I didn't mean A/B testing the configs. I want to use configs for A/B testings, based on user segmentation/bucket these configs value needs to be changed..

The docs doesn't give any indication how to use it, But https://parseplatform.github.io/Parse-SDK-iOS-OSX/api/Classes/PFConfig.html says I can use this for A/B testing.

From the client, I read the PFConfig, I will always get the same value, how to make this specific to experiment ?

Also, In the dashboard, I only see the push segmentation, but I don't see any UI for changing the configs specific to user segmentation.

[flovilmart]

You can use the config as I explained above, then you'll need to assign your users to buckets/segments somewhere else.

It is said you can use it for A/B testing but it's not an A/B testing framework.

[supercharger]

You don't A/B test your config, but you could store in your config for ex:
experiment1 = { a: "some value", b: "other value" }

Is there a way to associate key with "experiment1" with some value to "user1" and another value to "user2", Is that supported parse , any way to make it work ?

The Parse push notification supports user segmentation, it would be nice if this feature can be implemented too.

Thanks for your help.

[flovilmart]

You can simply have a new column in the user table or a function that transforms the objectId into the correct experiment... I dunno, there are zillions of ways of doing that.

Parse push notification supports user segmentation,

When you assign a user property to the _Installation itself, yes.

As it's not an issue with parse-server but more of a question, I suggest that you go ahead on stackoverflow for implementation details.

[supercharger]

Yes, Thanks, But this is more of feature request. I think it is a valuable feature to support remote configs with explicit A/B testing.

[flovilmart]

Go ahead an open a pull request with that feature then :)

[supercharger]

Yes, will be evaluating that, if I can do that in the time constraints.
FYI, Basically I am talking about this feature, https://firebase.google.com/docs/remote-config/

You can simply have a new column in the user table or a function that transforms the objectId into the correct experiment

I think that can't be done for all use cases, one may not have user concept in the app, and it is just configs and associating a user is unnecessary.

[flovilmart]

So you can assign per _Installation object... Closing the convo as it's not going anywhere.