ab-test

AngularJS A/B Test Service and Directives for creating declarative and imperative A/B/n tests.

Loads of Live Demos!

• Headlines & Sub-Headlines
• Paragraph Text
• Testimonials
• Social Proof
• Media Mentions
• Buttons (wording, size, color)
• Product Pricing
• Promotional Offers
• Images (wording, size, color)
• Awards and Badges

Install Choices

• bower install ab-test
• download the zip

Setup

1. Include the ab-test.js and ab-test-service.js scripts provided by this component into your app.
2. Add ab.test or ab.test.directive as a module dependency to your app.

Usage

<ab-test> Directive

Properties

• ab-frequency - REQUIRED: how often to show run the a/b test
• ab-run - OPTIONAL: function to trigger running the test again
• ab-shown - OPTIONAL: function to call when a variant is shown
• ab-select (coming soon) - OPTIONAL: will be used to make sticky A/B tests

<ab-variant> Directive

Properties

• ab-control - OPTIONAL: specify a variant as the A/B test "control"
• ab-data - OPTIONAL: arbitrary data you may want to link to a variant, useful when logging.

Sticky Tests

Running an A/B test is great but it's even better if you make the tests "sticky" to the user. Meaning if someone at your site gets variant B the next time they load the page or come back they get variant B again and not A. You can select a given variant by calling the ab-select method on the <ab-test> directive. How you track users is up to you, but since A/B tests aren't permanent a simple solution will most likely do very well. One way would be to use a cookie with angular-uuid-service a light weight (214 byte) UUID generator service for AngularJS that can be installed using bower. See the demo for an example implementation.

Running the demos

You can pick one of these options:

• serve this repository with your webserver
• use node.js and run node scripts/web-server.js

Then navigate your browser to http://localhost:<port>/demo/index.html to see the app running in your browser.

Testing

• Run npm install and bower install to make sure you have all the development dependencies.
• Run npm test or bash scripts/test.sh to run all unit tests

End to end testing

Requires a webserver;

• Run npm install and bower install to make sure you have all the development dependencies.
• Run node ./scripts/web-server.js or use your server that hosts the static files.
• Run the end-to-end tests from console with Protractor via bash scripts/e2e-test.sh

Contributing

Pull requests welcome :)

• Run npm run gulp to update the .min.js and min.js.map files with any changes you have made to ab-test.js.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel Lamb <daniellmb.com>

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