mediumScenarioBehaviouralMidSeniorLead
The release ships tomorrow and you are only halfway through regression. What do you do?
7 min readUpdated 2026-08-15
Answer
Short answer
Re-plan the remaining time against risk rather than against the test-case order, then report coverage as an explicit list of what was tested, what failed and what was never opened.
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