Coverage: What is Coverage?
Coverage is the metric we use during simulation to help us answer these questions. Yet, once coverage metrics become an integral part of our verification process, it opens up the possibility for more accurate project schedule predictions, as well as providing a means for optimizing our overall verification process. At this stage of maturity we can ask questions such as:
- When we tested feature X, did we ever test feature Y at the exact same time?
- Has our verification progress stalled for some unexpected reason?
- Are there tests that we could eliminate to speed up our regression suite and still achieve our coverage goals?
