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Sticky variant persistence: Retired variants remain sticky · case 04

Users keep receiving a variant that has been removed from the experiment.

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Case contract

stored is None or {variant, version}. A stored record is honoured (reason sticky, record unchanged) only if its version equals the current experiment version and its variant is still active; this takes precedence over traffic exclusion. Otherwise a None bucket_variant means excluded and the stored record is kept untouched; else the bucketed variant is assigned and a new record {variant, version} is returned. Return [variant, reason, record].

Why this case matters

Sticky bucketing keeps users on one arm across sessions; stale or retired records must not leak.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
assignment sample 28	`["a", "sticky", {"variant": "a", "version": 2}]`	`["b", "assigned", {"variant": "b", "version": 2}]`	Failed

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