[marcosdumay]

You are pushing for bit of too much of name-misuse. A/B tests are something what the entire point is that you run them on the real world, and gather how real users react.

Design-time user testing has been a thing for much longer than A/B tests. They are a different thing.

I mean, your point stands. But you can't do A/B tests on anything that is not production, those your are recommending are a different kind of tests.

[bluGill]

I'll accept your definition correction. However I think my point still stands: there are better things than A/B testing to get the information you need.