Re: A/B Testing in Firefox for Android

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Mark Finkle <[email protected]> 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.