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Prioritize Testing Under Severe Constraints

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You are responsible for QA on a high-impact software release and discover that the available test time and people are far below what the original plan assumed. You cannot fully test every workflow, environment, and edge case before the release decision is due, so you need a clear way to decide what gets covered, what is deferred, and what level of risk is acceptable.

Question

How do you prioritize what to test when time or resources are severely constrained?