Top challenges from the first practical online controlled experiments summit

S Gupta, R Kohavi, D Tang, Y Xu, R Andersen… - ACM SIGKDD …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments (OCEs), also known as A/B tests, have become ubiquitous in
evaluating the impact of changes made to software products and services. While the concept …

Experimentation growth: Evolving trustworthy A/B testing capabilities in online software companies

A Fabijan, P Dmitriev, C McFarland… - Journal of Software …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Companies need to know how much value their ideas deliver to customers. One of the most
powerful ways to accurately measure this is by conducting online controlled experiments …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled experimentation in continuous experimentation: Knowledge and challenges

F Auer, R Ros, L Kaltenbrunner, P Runeson… - Information and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context: Continuous experimentation and A/B testing is an established industry practice that
has been researched for more than 10 years. Our aim is to synthesize the conducted …

The use of readability metrics in legal text: A systematic literature review

Y Han, A Ceross, JHM Bergmann - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.09497, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding the text in legal documents can be challenging due to their complex structure
and the inclusion of domain-specific jargon. Laws and regulations are often crafted in such a …

[DOC][DOC] Online experimentation: Benefits, operational and methodological challenges, and scaling guide

I Bo**ov, S Gupta - Harvard Data Science Review, 2022 - assets.pubpub.org
In the past decade, online controlled experimentation, or A/B testing, at scale has proved to
be a significant driver of business innovation. The practice was first pioneered by the …

Choosing a proxy metric from past experiments

N Tripuraneni, L Richardson, A D'Amour… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In many randomized experiments, the treatment effect of the long-term metric (ie the primary
outcome of interest) is often difficult or infeasible to measure. Such long-term metrics are …

The benefits of controlled experimentation at scale

A Fabijan, P Dmitriev, HH Olsson… - 2017 43rd Euromicro …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online controlled experiments (for example A/B tests) are increasingly being performed to
guide product development and accelerate innovation in online software product …

The anatomy of a large-scale experimentation platform

S Gupta, L Ulanova, S Bhardwaj… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online controlled experiments (eg, A/B tests) are an integral part of successful data-driven
companies. At Microsoft, supporting experimentation poses a unique challenge due to the …

Variance Reduction Using In-Experiment Data: Efficient and Targeted Online Measurement for Sparse and Delayed Outcomes

A Deng, M Du, A Matlin, Q Zhang - … of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Improving statistical power is a common challenge for online experimentation platforms so
that more hypotheses can be tested and lower effect sizes can be detected. To increase the …

Applying the Delta method in metric analytics: A practical guide with novel ideas

A Deng, U Knoblich, J Lu - Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
During the last decade, the information technology industry has adopted a data-driven
culture, relying on online metrics to measure and monitor business performance. Under the …