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      1 // Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #include "chrome/common/metrics/variations/uniformity_field_trials.h"
      6 
      7 #include "base/metrics/field_trial.h"
      8 #include "base/strings/stringprintf.h"
      9 #include "base/time/time.h"
     10 #include "chrome/common/metrics/variations/variations_util.h"
     11 
     12 namespace chrome_variations {
     13 
     14 namespace {
     15 
     16 // Set up a uniformity field trial. |one_time_randomized| indicates if the
     17 // field trial is one-time randomized or session-randomized. |trial_name_string|
     18 // must contain a "%d" since the percentage of the group will be inserted in
     19 // the trial name. |num_trial_groups| must be a divisor of 100 (e.g. 5, 20)
     20 void SetupSingleUniformityFieldTrial(
     21     base::FieldTrial::RandomizationType randomization_type,
     22     const std::string& trial_name_string,
     23     const VariationID trial_base_id,
     24     int num_trial_groups) {
     25   // Probability per group remains constant for all uniformity trials, what
     26   // changes is the probability divisor.
     27   static const base::FieldTrial::Probability kProbabilityPerGroup = 1;
     28   const std::string kDefaultGroupName = "default";
     29   const base::FieldTrial::Probability divisor = num_trial_groups;
     30 
     31   DCHECK_EQ(100 % num_trial_groups, 0);
     32   const int group_percent = 100 / num_trial_groups;
     33   const std::string trial_name = base::StringPrintf(trial_name_string.c_str(),
     34                                                     group_percent);
     35 
     36   DVLOG(1) << "Trial name = " << trial_name;
     37 
     38   scoped_refptr<base::FieldTrial> trial(
     39       base::FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial(
     40           trial_name, divisor, kDefaultGroupName, 2015, 1, 1,
     41           randomization_type, NULL));
     42   AssociateGoogleVariationID(GOOGLE_UPDATE_SERVICE, trial_name,
     43                              kDefaultGroupName, trial_base_id);
     44 
     45   // Loop starts with group 1 because the field trial automatically creates a
     46   // default group, which would be group 0.
     47   for (int group_number = 1; group_number < num_trial_groups; ++group_number) {
     48     const std::string group_name =
     49           base::StringPrintf("group_%02d", group_number);
     50     DVLOG(1) << "    Group name = " << group_name;
     51     trial->AppendGroup(group_name, kProbabilityPerGroup);
     52     AssociateGoogleVariationID(
     53         GOOGLE_UPDATE_SERVICE, trial_name, group_name,
     54         static_cast<VariationID>(trial_base_id + group_number));
     55   }
     56 
     57   // Now that all groups have been appended, call group() on the trial to
     58   // ensure that our trial is registered. This resolves an off-by-one issue
     59   // where the default group never gets chosen if we don't "use" the trial.
     60   const int chosen_group = trial->group();
     61   DVLOG(1) << "Chosen Group: " << chosen_group;
     62 }
     63 
     64 // Setup a 50% uniformity trial for new installs only. This is accomplished by
     65 // disabling the trial on clients that were installed before a specified date.
     66 void SetupNewInstallUniformityTrial(const base::Time install_date) {
     67   const base::Time::Exploded kStartDate = {
     68     2012, 11, 0, 6,  // Nov 6, 2012
     69     0, 0, 0, 0       // 00:00:00.000
     70   };
     71   scoped_refptr<base::FieldTrial> trial(
     72       base::FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial(
     73           "UMA-New-Install-Uniformity-Trial", 100, "Disabled",
     74           2015, 1, 1, base::FieldTrial::ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED, NULL));
     75   trial->AppendGroup("Control", 50);
     76   trial->AppendGroup("Experiment", 50);
     77   const base::Time start_date = base::Time::FromLocalExploded(kStartDate);
     78   if (install_date < start_date)
     79     trial->Disable();
     80   else
     81     trial->group();
     82 }
     83 
     84 }  // namespace
     85 
     86 void SetupUniformityFieldTrials(const base::Time install_date) {
     87   // The 100 percent field trial in which everyone is a member is a special
     88   // case. It is useful to create as it permits viewing all UMA data in UIs
     89   // and tools that require a field trial.
     90   base::FieldTrial* trial =
     91       base::FieldTrialList::CreateFieldTrial("UMA-Uniformity-Trial-100-Percent",
     92                                              "group_01");
     93   // Call |group()| on the trial to ensure its reported in metrics.
     94   trial->group();
     95 
     96   // One field trial will be created for each entry in this array. The i'th
     97   // field trial will have |trial_sizes[i]| groups in it, including the default
     98   // group. Each group will have a probability of 1/|trial_sizes[i]|.
     99   const int num_trial_groups[] = { 100, 20, 10, 5, 2 };
    100 
    101   // Declare our variation ID bases along side this array so we can loop over it
    102   // and assign the IDs appropriately. So for example, the 1 percent experiments
    103   // should have a size of 100 (100/100 = 1).
    104   const VariationID trial_base_ids[] = {
    105     UNIFORMITY_1_PERCENT_BASE,
    106     UNIFORMITY_5_PERCENT_BASE,
    107     UNIFORMITY_10_PERCENT_BASE,
    108     UNIFORMITY_20_PERCENT_BASE,
    109     UNIFORMITY_50_PERCENT_BASE
    110   };
    111 
    112   const std::string kOneTimeRandomizedTrialName =
    113       "UMA-Uniformity-Trial-%d-Percent";
    114   for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(num_trial_groups); ++i) {
    115     SetupSingleUniformityFieldTrial(base::FieldTrial::ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED,
    116                                     kOneTimeRandomizedTrialName,
    117                                     trial_base_ids[i], num_trial_groups[i]);
    118   }
    119 
    120   // Setup a 5% session-randomized uniformity trial.
    121   const std::string kSessionRandomizedTrialName =
    122       "UMA-Session-Randomized-Uniformity-Trial-%d-Percent";
    123   SetupSingleUniformityFieldTrial(
    124       base::FieldTrial::SESSION_RANDOMIZED, kSessionRandomizedTrialName,
    125       UNIFORMITY_SESSION_RANDOMIZED_5_PERCENT_BASE, 20);
    126 
    127   SetupNewInstallUniformityTrial(install_date);
    128 }
    129 
    130 }  // namespace chrome_variations
    131