https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Culture & Methods Articles feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size/en/headerimage/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size-header-1774943323622.jpg"/><p>How can you focus in a sea of results from a large regression test suite? This article describes a stochastic approach that relies on some degree of redundancy in your CI regression test set. This approach does not guarantee you will catch every bug every time, but it gives you your best bet of not missing the subtle signatures of all the bugs uncovered by your CI regression test suite runs.</p> <i>By James Bornefelt Westfall</i> Metrics Feedback Integration Test Testing Quality Defects Code Coverage Software Testing Regression Testing Development Culture & Methods article Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-articles James Bornefelt Westfall 2026-04-06T11:00:00Z /articles/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size/en