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phpScenario

phpScenario is an object-oriented split testing library intended to make A/B testing disturbingly easy for PHP developers. Basically the goal is to make integration into a project take, at most, 5 minutes. Actually adding tests should be even faster, at least for simple A/B tests.

Features

• One-line testing for simple A/B cases (see Basic Usage)
• XML-based result renderer (with HTML output included)
• Support for choosing files to display based on treatment
• Ability to use identifiers other than session_id()

Requirements

• PHP version 5.2 or later
• A supported database abstraction layer (DBAL)
  • PDO (PHP Data Objects)
  • Zend Framework's Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract

Setup

• How-to for the PDO adapter
• How-to for Zend_Db (MVC & Non-MVC)

Basic Usage

• Implementing a simple A/B Test
• Rendering results in XML or HTML

Advanced Usage

• Using custom identities
• Using a logged in user ID as the default identity
• Including files with Scenario_Core::UsePartial
• Integrating Scenario_Core::UsePartial with Zend_View
• A workflow without using the shortcut methods
• Extending the Experiment class
• Re-using or deleting experiment data
• Custom Result Rendering

Planned for 1.0

• Scenario_Data_Analyzer and overhaul of Scenario_Result/ResultSet usage
• More/better stats available through analyzer
• Text result renderer
• Template-based result renderer (basically feed analyzer and resultset to an include)
• Built-in Multivariate Support.
• Support for weighting treatments
• (maybe) Single-line password-protected results & admin page? (something like Scenario_Core::AdminPage($_POST)?)

Ideas / Potential features

• Command line tool for checking results and otherwise manipulating data.
• SVG result renderer? (or RaphaelJS?)
• Auto-selection & notification of winning version upon high confidence. (Fire & Forget testing)
• Full unit testing suite (there are none right now)
• Support for Doctrine DBAL?
• REST data adapter
• File data adapter