// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // FieldTrial is a class for handling details of statistical experiments // performed by actual users in the field (i.e., in a shipped or beta product). // All code is called exclusively on the UI thread currently. // // The simplest example is an experiment to see whether one of two options // produces "better" results across our user population. In that scenario, UMA // data is uploaded to aggregate the test results, and this FieldTrial class // manages the state of each such experiment (state == which option was // pseudo-randomly selected). // // States are typically generated randomly, either based on a one time // randomization (which will yield the same results, in terms of selecting // the client for a field trial or not, for every run of the program on a // given machine), or by a session randomization (generated each time the // application starts up, but held constant during the duration of the // process). //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Example: Suppose we have an experiment involving memory, such as determining // the impact of some pruning algorithm. // We assume that we already have a histogram of memory usage, such as: // UMA_HISTOGRAM_COUNTS("Memory.RendererTotal", count); // Somewhere in main thread initialization code, we'd probably define an // instance of a FieldTrial, with code such as: // // FieldTrials are reference counted, and persist automagically until // // process teardown, courtesy of their automatic registration in // // FieldTrialList. // // Note: This field trial will run in Chrome instances compiled through // // 8 July, 2015, and after that all instances will be in "StandardMem". // scoped_refptr<base::FieldTrial> trial( // base::FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial( // "MemoryExperiment", 1000, "StandardMem", 2015, 7, 8, // base::FieldTrial::ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED, NULL)); // // const int high_mem_group = // trial->AppendGroup("HighMem", 20); // 2% in HighMem group. // const int low_mem_group = // trial->AppendGroup("LowMem", 20); // 2% in LowMem group. // // Take action depending of which group we randomly land in. // if (trial->group() == high_mem_group) // SetPruningAlgorithm(kType1); // Sample setting of browser state. // else if (trial->group() == low_mem_group) // SetPruningAlgorithm(kType2); // Sample alternate setting. //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ifndef BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_ #define BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_ #include <stddef.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <map> #include <set> #include <string> #include <vector> #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/gtest_prod_util.h" #include "base/macros.h" #include "base/memory/ref_counted.h" #include "base/observer_list_threadsafe.h" #include "base/strings/string_piece.h" #include "base/synchronization/lock.h" #include "base/time/time.h" namespace base { class FieldTrialList; class BASE_EXPORT FieldTrial : public RefCounted<FieldTrial> { public: typedef int Probability; // Probability type for being selected in a trial. // Specifies the persistence of the field trial group choice. enum RandomizationType { // One time randomized trials will persist the group choice between // restarts, which is recommended for most trials, especially those that // change user visible behavior. ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED, // Session randomized trials will roll the dice to select a group on every // process restart. SESSION_RANDOMIZED, }; // EntropyProvider is an interface for providing entropy for one-time // randomized (persistent) field trials. class BASE_EXPORT EntropyProvider { public: virtual ~EntropyProvider(); // Returns a double in the range of [0, 1) to be used for the dice roll for // the specified field trial. If |randomization_seed| is not 0, it will be // used in preference to |trial_name| for generating the entropy by entropy // providers that support it. A given instance should always return the same // value given the same input |trial_name| and |randomization_seed| values. virtual double GetEntropyForTrial(const std::string& trial_name, uint32_t randomization_seed) const = 0; }; // A pair representing a Field Trial and its selected group. struct ActiveGroup { std::string trial_name; std::string group_name; }; // A triplet representing a FieldTrial, its selected group and whether it's // active. struct BASE_EXPORT State { StringPiece trial_name; StringPiece group_name; bool activated; State(); ~State(); }; typedef std::vector<ActiveGroup> ActiveGroups; // A return value to indicate that a given instance has not yet had a group // assignment (and hence is not yet participating in the trial). static const int kNotFinalized; // Disables this trial, meaning it always determines the default group // has been selected. May be called immediately after construction, or // at any time after initialization (should not be interleaved with // AppendGroup calls). Once disabled, there is no way to re-enable a // trial. // TODO(mad): http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121446 // This doesn't properly reset to Default when a group was forced. void Disable(); // Establish the name and probability of the next group in this trial. // Sometimes, based on construction randomization, this call may cause the // provided group to be *THE* group selected for use in this instance. // The return value is the group number of the new group. int AppendGroup(const std::string& name, Probability group_probability); // Return the name of the FieldTrial (excluding the group name). const std::string& trial_name() const { return trial_name_; } // Return the randomly selected group number that was assigned, and notify // any/all observers that this finalized group number has presumably been used // (queried), and will never change. Note that this will force an instance to // participate, and make it illegal to attempt to probabilistically add any // other groups to the trial. int group(); // If the group's name is empty, a string version containing the group number // is used as the group name. This causes a winner to be chosen if none was. const std::string& group_name(); // Finalizes the group choice and returns the chosen group, but does not mark // the trial as active - so its state will not be reported until group_name() // or similar is called. const std::string& GetGroupNameWithoutActivation(); // Set the field trial as forced, meaning that it was setup earlier than // the hard coded registration of the field trial to override it. // This allows the code that was hard coded to register the field trial to // still succeed even though the field trial has already been registered. // This must be called after appending all the groups, since we will make // the group choice here. Note that this is a NOOP for already forced trials. // And, as the rest of the FieldTrial code, this is not thread safe and must // be done from the UI thread. void SetForced(); // Enable benchmarking sets field trials to a common setting. static void EnableBenchmarking(); // Creates a FieldTrial object with the specified parameters, to be used for // simulation of group assignment without actually affecting global field // trial state in the running process. Group assignment will be done based on // |entropy_value|, which must have a range of [0, 1). // // Note: Using this function will not register the field trial globally in the // running process - for that, use FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial(). // // The ownership of the returned FieldTrial is transfered to the caller which // is responsible for deref'ing it (e.g. by using scoped_refptr<FieldTrial>). static FieldTrial* CreateSimulatedFieldTrial( const std::string& trial_name, Probability total_probability, const std::string& default_group_name, double entropy_value); private: // Allow tests to access our innards for testing purposes. FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, Registration); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, AbsoluteProbabilities); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, RemainingProbability); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, FiftyFiftyProbability); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, MiddleProbabilities); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, OneWinner); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DisableProbability); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, ActiveGroups); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, AllGroups); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, ActiveGroupsNotFinalized); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, Save); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SaveAll); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DuplicateRestore); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedTurnFeatureOff); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedTurnFeatureOn); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedChangeDefault_Default); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedChangeDefault_NonDefault); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, FloatBoundariesGiveEqualGroupSizes); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DoesNotSurpassTotalProbability); friend class base::FieldTrialList; friend class RefCounted<FieldTrial>; // This is the group number of the 'default' group when a choice wasn't forced // by a call to FieldTrialList::CreateFieldTrial. It is kept private so that // consumers don't use it by mistake in cases where the group was forced. static const int kDefaultGroupNumber; // Creates a field trial with the specified parameters. Group assignment will // be done based on |entropy_value|, which must have a range of [0, 1). FieldTrial(const std::string& trial_name, Probability total_probability, const std::string& default_group_name, double entropy_value); virtual ~FieldTrial(); // Return the default group name of the FieldTrial. std::string default_group_name() const { return default_group_name_; } // Marks this trial as having been registered with the FieldTrialList. Must be // called no more than once and before any |group()| calls have occurred. void SetTrialRegistered(); // Sets the chosen group name and number. void SetGroupChoice(const std::string& group_name, int number); // Ensures that a group is chosen, if it hasn't yet been. The field trial // might yet be disabled, so this call will *not* notify observers of the // status. void FinalizeGroupChoice(); // Returns the trial name and selected group name for this field trial via // the output parameter |active_group|, but only if the group has already // been chosen and has been externally observed via |group()| and the trial // has not been disabled. In that case, true is returned and |active_group| // is filled in; otherwise, the result is false and |active_group| is left // untouched. bool GetActiveGroup(ActiveGroup* active_group) const; // Returns the trial name and selected group name for this field trial via // the output parameter |field_trial_state|, but only if the trial has not // been disabled. In that case, true is returned and |field_trial_state| is // filled in; otherwise, the result is false and |field_trial_state| is left // untouched. bool GetState(State* field_trial_state); // Returns the group_name. A winner need not have been chosen. std::string group_name_internal() const { return group_name_; } // The name of the field trial, as can be found via the FieldTrialList. const std::string trial_name_; // The maximum sum of all probabilities supplied, which corresponds to 100%. // This is the scaling factor used to adjust supplied probabilities. const Probability divisor_; // The name of the default group. const std::string default_group_name_; // The randomly selected probability that is used to select a group (or have // the instance not participate). It is the product of divisor_ and a random // number between [0, 1). Probability random_; // Sum of the probabilities of all appended groups. Probability accumulated_group_probability_; // The number that will be returned by the next AppendGroup() call. int next_group_number_; // The pseudo-randomly assigned group number. // This is kNotFinalized if no group has been assigned. int group_; // A textual name for the randomly selected group. Valid after |group()| // has been called. std::string group_name_; // When enable_field_trial_ is false, field trial reverts to the 'default' // group. bool enable_field_trial_; // When forced_ is true, we return the chosen group from AppendGroup when // appropriate. bool forced_; // Specifies whether the group choice has been reported to observers. bool group_reported_; // Whether this trial is registered with the global FieldTrialList and thus // should notify it when its group is queried. bool trial_registered_; // When benchmarking is enabled, field trials all revert to the 'default' // group. static bool enable_benchmarking_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FieldTrial); }; //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Class with a list of all active field trials. A trial is active if it has // been registered, which includes evaluating its state based on its probaility. // Only one instance of this class exists. class BASE_EXPORT FieldTrialList { public: // Specifies whether field trials should be activated (marked as "used"), when // created using |CreateTrialsFromString()|. Has no effect on trials that are // prefixed with |kActivationMarker|, which will always be activated." enum FieldTrialActivationMode { DONT_ACTIVATE_TRIALS, ACTIVATE_TRIALS, }; // Year that is guaranteed to not be expired when instantiating a field trial // via |FactoryGetFieldTrial()|. Set to two years from the build date. static int kNoExpirationYear; // Observer is notified when a FieldTrial's group is selected. class BASE_EXPORT Observer { public: // Notify observers when FieldTrials's group is selected. virtual void OnFieldTrialGroupFinalized(const std::string& trial_name, const std::string& group_name) = 0; protected: virtual ~Observer(); }; // This singleton holds the global list of registered FieldTrials. // // To support one-time randomized field trials, specify a non-NULL // |entropy_provider| which should be a source of uniformly distributed // entropy values. Takes ownership of |entropy_provider|. If one time // randomization is not desired, pass in NULL for |entropy_provider|. explicit FieldTrialList(const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider* entropy_provider); // Destructor Release()'s references to all registered FieldTrial instances. ~FieldTrialList(); // Get a FieldTrial instance from the factory. // // |name| is used to register the instance with the FieldTrialList class, // and can be used to find the trial (only one trial can be present for each // name). |default_group_name| is the name of the default group which will // be chosen if none of the subsequent appended groups get to be chosen. // |default_group_number| can receive the group number of the default group as // AppendGroup returns the number of the subsequence groups. |trial_name| and // |default_group_name| may not be empty but |default_group_number| can be // NULL if the value is not needed. // // Group probabilities that are later supplied must sum to less than or equal // to the |total_probability|. Arguments |year|, |month| and |day_of_month| // specify the expiration time. If the build time is after the expiration time // then the field trial reverts to the 'default' group. // // Use this static method to get a startup-randomized FieldTrial or a // previously created forced FieldTrial. static FieldTrial* FactoryGetFieldTrial( const std::string& trial_name, FieldTrial::Probability total_probability, const std::string& default_group_name, const int year, const int month, const int day_of_month, FieldTrial::RandomizationType randomization_type, int* default_group_number); // Same as FactoryGetFieldTrial(), but allows specifying a custom seed to be // used on one-time randomized field trials (instead of a hash of the trial // name, which is used otherwise or if |randomization_seed| has value 0). The // |randomization_seed| value (other than 0) should never be the same for two // trials, else this would result in correlated group assignments. // Note: Using a custom randomization seed is only supported by the // PermutedEntropyProvider (which is used when UMA is not enabled). static FieldTrial* FactoryGetFieldTrialWithRandomizationSeed( const std::string& trial_name, FieldTrial::Probability total_probability, const std::string& default_group_name, const int year, const int month, const int day_of_month, FieldTrial::RandomizationType randomization_type, uint32_t randomization_seed, int* default_group_number); // The Find() method can be used to test to see if a named trial was already // registered, or to retrieve a pointer to it from the global map. static FieldTrial* Find(const std::string& trial_name); // Returns the group number chosen for the named trial, or // FieldTrial::kNotFinalized if the trial does not exist. static int FindValue(const std::string& trial_name); // Returns the group name chosen for the named trial, or the empty string if // the trial does not exist. The first call of this function on a given field // trial will mark it as active, so that its state will be reported with usage // metrics, crashes, etc. static std::string FindFullName(const std::string& trial_name); // Returns true if the named trial has been registered. static bool TrialExists(const std::string& trial_name); // Returns true if the named trial exists and has been activated. static bool IsTrialActive(const std::string& trial_name); // Creates a persistent representation of active FieldTrial instances for // resurrection in another process. This allows randomization to be done in // one process, and secondary processes can be synchronized on the result. // The resulting string contains the name and group name pairs of all // registered FieldTrials for which the group has been chosen and externally // observed (via |group()|) and which have not been disabled, with "/" used // to separate all names and to terminate the string. This string is parsed // by |CreateTrialsFromString()|. static void StatesToString(std::string* output); // Creates a persistent representation of all FieldTrial instances for // resurrection in another process. This allows randomization to be done in // one process, and secondary processes can be synchronized on the result. // The resulting string contains the name and group name pairs of all // registered FieldTrials which have not been disabled, with "/" used // to separate all names and to terminate the string. All activated trials // have their name prefixed with "*". This string is parsed by // |CreateTrialsFromString()|. static void AllStatesToString(std::string* output); // Fills in the supplied vector |active_groups| (which must be empty when // called) with a snapshot of all registered FieldTrials for which the group // has been chosen and externally observed (via |group()|) and which have // not been disabled. static void GetActiveFieldTrialGroups( FieldTrial::ActiveGroups* active_groups); // Returns the field trials that are marked active in |trials_string|. static void GetActiveFieldTrialGroupsFromString( const std::string& trials_string, FieldTrial::ActiveGroups* active_groups); // Use a state string (re: StatesToString()) to augment the current list of // field trials to include the supplied trials, and using a 100% probability // for each trial, force them to have the same group string. This is commonly // used in a non-browser process, to carry randomly selected state in a // browser process into this non-browser process, but could also be invoked // through a command line argument to the browser process. The created field // trials are all marked as "used" for the purposes of active trial reporting // if |mode| is ACTIVATE_TRIALS, otherwise each trial will be marked as "used" // if it is prefixed with |kActivationMarker|. Trial names in // |ignored_trial_names| are ignored when parsing |trials_string|. static bool CreateTrialsFromString( const std::string& trials_string, FieldTrialActivationMode mode, const std::set<std::string>& ignored_trial_names); // Create a FieldTrial with the given |name| and using 100% probability for // the FieldTrial, force FieldTrial to have the same group string as // |group_name|. This is commonly used in a non-browser process, to carry // randomly selected state in a browser process into this non-browser process. // It returns NULL if there is a FieldTrial that is already registered with // the same |name| but has different finalized group string (|group_name|). static FieldTrial* CreateFieldTrial(const std::string& name, const std::string& group_name); // Add an observer to be notified when a field trial is irrevocably committed // to being part of some specific field_group (and hence the group_name is // also finalized for that field_trial). static void AddObserver(Observer* observer); // Remove an observer. static void RemoveObserver(Observer* observer); // Notify all observers that a group has been finalized for |field_trial|. static void NotifyFieldTrialGroupSelection(FieldTrial* field_trial); // Return the number of active field trials. static size_t GetFieldTrialCount(); private: // A map from FieldTrial names to the actual instances. typedef std::map<std::string, FieldTrial*> RegistrationMap; // If one-time randomization is enabled, returns a weak pointer to the // corresponding EntropyProvider. Otherwise, returns NULL. static const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider* GetEntropyProviderForOneTimeRandomization(); // Helper function should be called only while holding lock_. FieldTrial* PreLockedFind(const std::string& name); // Register() stores a pointer to the given trial in a global map. // This method also AddRef's the indicated trial. // This should always be called after creating a new FieldTrial instance. static void Register(FieldTrial* trial); static FieldTrialList* global_; // The singleton of this class. // This will tell us if there is an attempt to register a field // trial or check if one-time randomization is enabled without // creating the FieldTrialList. This is not an error, unless a // FieldTrialList is created after that. static bool used_without_global_; // Lock for access to registered_. base::Lock lock_; RegistrationMap registered_; // Entropy provider to be used for one-time randomized field trials. If NULL, // one-time randomization is not supported. scoped_ptr<const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider> entropy_provider_; // List of observers to be notified when a group is selected for a FieldTrial. scoped_refptr<ObserverListThreadSafe<Observer> > observer_list_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FieldTrialList); }; } // namespace base #endif // BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_