Is unit testing and a/b testing are the same?

[gulshan212]

I am Gulshan Negi, and I am a web developer, and nowadays I am reading about unit testing, which is being used to test software applications, or we can say unit testing is the type of software testing that involves testing each unit of software applications. During my reading, I also saw many articles about A/B testing, and according to this article, A/B testing is the method of testing different applications and finding the best one in between them. My concern is that is both testing are same?
Can anyone give their suggestions on this?
Thanks

 

[pritaeas]

They are not the same.

Unit tests test whether your code is doing what it should do.

A/B testing tests which version of, lets say, two web interfaces give the best result. If it's a webshop for instance, it might matter where your buttons, products and cart items are located. Different versions of the same page can show very different results in how your customers order, or perhaps not at all. (In addition, each code block that is called would still need a unit test.)

 

[gulshan212]

Thanks a lot for your kind response and time. Well, this is a perfect example, and I got some basic ideas from here about unit testing and A/B testing.
Thanks

 

[oliviaeve250]

No, unit testing and A/B testing are not the same.

Unit testing is a software development practice where individual components or units of code are tested to ensure they work correctly in isolation.

A/B testing, on the other hand, is a method used in marketing and user experience testing where two or more versions of a web page or app are compared to determine which one performs better in terms of user engagement, conversion rates, or other key metrics. It involves testing variations of an entire product or feature with real users to make data-driven decisions about design and functionality improvements.

 

[gulshan212]

@oliviaeve250 Thanks a lot for your response and time.