Run forcibly showing the trial status popover as its own experiment

- Create a new feature flag for the experiment

ee/app/helpers/trial_status_widget_helper.rb

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module TrialStatusWidgetHelper
     base_attrs.merge(
       group_name: group.name,
       purchase_href: ultimate_subscription_path_for_group(group),
-      start_initially_shown: force_popover_to_be_shown?(group.trial_days_remaining),
+      start_initially_shown: in_forced_popover_experiment?(group) && force_popover_to_be_shown?(group.trial_days_remaining),
       target_id: base_attrs[:container_id],
       trial_end_date: group.trial_ends_on
     )
@@ -64,4 +64,8 @@ module TrialStatusWidgetHelper
   def ultimate_subscription_path_for_group(group)
     new_subscriptions_path(namespace_id: group.id, plan_id: ZUORA_ULTIMATE_PLAN_ID)
   end
+
+  def in_forced_popover_experiment?(group)
+    experiment(:forcibly_show_trial_status_popover, group: group).variant.group == :experiment
+  end
 end

ee/config/feature_flags/experiment/forcibly_show_trial_status_popover.yml

+---
+name: forcibly_show_trial_status_popover
+introduced_by_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/65283
+rollout_issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/335043
+milestone: '14.1'
+type: experiment
+group: group::conversion
+default_enabled: false

ee/spec/helpers/trial_status_widget_helper_spec.rb

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ RSpec.describe TrialStatusWidgetHelper do
 
     before do
       travel_to today_for_specs
+      stub_experiments(forcibly_show_trial_status_popover: :candidate)
     end
 
     describe '#trial_status_popover_data_attrs' do
@@ -97,6 +98,18 @@ RSpec.describe TrialStatusWidgetHelper do
           include_examples 'returned data attributes'
         end
       end
+
+      context 'when not part of the experiment' do
+        before do
+          stub_experiments(forcibly_show_trial_status_popover: :control)
+        end
+
+        where trial_days_remaining: [2, 5, 9, 14, 20]
+
+        with_them do
+          include_examples 'returned data attributes', shown: false
+        end
+      end
     end
 
     describe '#trial_status_widget_data_attrs' do