UPDATE: uSplit is no longer fully functioning. Google have discontinued content experiments and have moved to Google Optimize. Unfortunately Optimise doesn't have a fully featured management API- which limits the functionality uSplit can provide. If you are interested in helping with the future of uSplit see this issue #25.
This repository contains the source code of uSplit, an Umbraco plugin that removes all technical barriers to A/B testing.
The information in this readme is inteded for developers wishing to discuss and contribute to the project.
For supplementary information visit the uSplit product page, where you can also learn about various support packages that are available. We have also made an installation guide available, and a tutorial on how to run your first experiment. These topics were also covered and demoed on a recent uHangout episode.
uSplit is available via NuGet (the preffered way of installation) and is also listed on the Umbraco package repository.
Currently there are two parallel versions of this plugin available. 1.0.x for Umbraco <= 7.5 and 1.6.x for Umbraco 7.6+. Despite the minor version increase these two versions contain the same functionality. Pick one that matches your Umbraco version.
Our CI server builds every commit and all successful builds are automatically packaged and published on NuGet.
PM> Install-Package Endzone.uSplit
The Google Analytics Expriments C# Libraries have a dependcy on a strongly-signed log4net library version 1.2.13. Up until 7.5 Umbraco was built against and distributed an older unsigned library - version 1.2.11. Due to the signing mismatch both versions need to be provided to the application.
To do so, uSplit places the library Umbraco looks for into bin/log4net/1.2.11.0/log4net.dll. The following has to be added to Web.config (under //configuration/runtime/assemblyBinding) to make the library discoverable:
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="log4net" publicKeyToken="null" />
<codeBase version="1.2.11.0" href="bin/log4net/1.2.11.0/log4net.dll" />
</dependentAssembly>
We also manually release new versions on the Umbraco package repository. Since this is a manual process these updates are available later than via NuGet, and not all versions might be released here.
This method of installation does not update any NuGet packages. uSplit however requires Newtonsoft.Json version 7 or above.
Newtonsoft.Json version 7 is therefore packaged with uSplit 1.0.x and will get copied over into the target bin folder when you install the pacakge. If you by any chance used a newer version than the one we distribute make sure to place it back!
Target site needs to update the assembly binding redirect to point to version 7 (unless it is using a newer version):
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-7.0.0.0" newVersion="7.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
uSplit version 1.6.x targetting Umbraco 7.6.0 does not distribute this library as version 10 is pulled down as a dependency on Umbraco.Core.
Pull requests are more than welcome! Fixed a bug or improved the editorial experience? Share your code with the rest of the community! We do not have official coding standards, just try to keep the code consistent.
Feel free to use the issue tracker to report any problems you encounter. Unless you have a support contract with us, we do not provide any SLAs.