Testing Regression Strategy

Overview

Use this skill to select regression coverage that maximizes risk reduction within execution constraints.

Scope Boundaries

• Use when not all tests can run every change and selection policy is required.
• Typical requests:
  • Optimize regression coverage under CI time budget.
  • Define mandatory versus conditional suites by risk.
  • Map change impact to regression gates.
• Do not use when:
  • The task is implementing one specific test case only.
  • The task is observability/alert policy design (observability-*).

Inputs

• Release risk profile and CI budget
• Test inventory with cost, flakiness, and detection value
• Change-impact and component criticality model