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[EPIC] SDS 2.4.13. Make xLab UI compatible with new experimentation infrastructure
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Hypothesis

If we make Experimentation Lab’s UI compatible with the technical infrastructure that supports experimenting with anonymous users, we’ll enable experiment owners to A/B test with logged-out traffic and validate the new functionality end-to-end, using our MVP platform.

Considerations
  • This hypothesis isn't a blocker for user acceptance testing, and it indeed is being informed by it: The UAT of Metrics platform being conducted with help from the Web team has motivated a set of changes intended to align our system and xLab's UI with the needs of its users. These useful findings have expanded the scope of SDS2.4.13 (See subtasks)
  • We're evaluating the need to conduct an independent test in order to validate this hypothesis, and make sure that xLab's MVP allows experiment owners to launch A/B tests with logged-out traffic.

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Sarai-WMF renamed this task from [EPIC] SDS2.4.13. Make xLab UI compatible with new experimentation infrastructure to [EPIC] SDS 2.4.13. Make xLab UI compatible with new experimentation infrastructure.May 22 2025, 8:50 AM

The hypothesis SDS2.4.13 had to be closed yesterday, coinciding with the end of FY24-25 (See final report). All pending subtasks (mostly outstanding improvements) can be considered foundational/essential work until we decide whether they should be housed under a particular KR:

Pinging @JVanderhoop-WMF for visibility. (I'll add a similar version of this message to all the former subtasks)