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I know I am touching a bit of Personalization here. But I am trying to understand something pretty basic. I want to do A/B testing but not with a different set of content (data source) but two different rendering items.

Like for example, I want to AB test a hero image vs Video component. The current Sitecore Out of box setting allows me only to choose different datasources not components.

One way I could think of is creating a custom wrapper component that is a combination of both hero and video component and then based on data source or type, chooses to display one. Do I have to customize this way or has someone been that path before with a better approach? Sitecore Version 8.1

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The approach you mention is suitable for when you want to include Rendering Parameters in your A/B test. For just switching between two components however, it is not necessary,

What you need to do, is enable Personalize the presentation of the component. This allows you to select between your Hero and Video components.

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More information here: Walkthrough: Personalizing components

(your specific use case under this section)

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  • Thanks @mark-cassidy. Little confused here. This is personalization and would i be still be able to do variants. Like say 30% Rendering 1 vs 30% Rendering 2 and 40% Rendering 3? What you have mentioned here needs a logic to show right ? Like Geolocation or gender or something else ?
    – Night Monger
    Jun 15, 2018 at 22:36
  • I'm not sure I understand your question; nor is it part of your original question. But when Sitecore conducts tests, it spreads exposure evenly across all options available. So if you have 3 variations, each of them get approximately 33% exposure. Which is also the only thing that makes sense; when you want to measure the most effective of the 3 at the end of the test.
    – Mark Cassidy
    Jun 15, 2018 at 23:51

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