Difference Between Checklist and Coverage Map

by Nataliia Vasylyna | May 8, 2014 10:00 am

Many experts in software testing find that lightweight guidance is often more beneficial than the detailed one for mobile application testing, desktop testing and web site testing. Such guidance is especially suitable for mobile software products.

Among convenient and useful lightweight types of guidance are checklists and coverage maps. They both are elaborated basing on coverage models and thinking instrument. A test guidance makes testing works specific, measurable and finite.

One can test a mobile application forever basing only on a coverage model or a thinking tool.

A software testing company will confirm that checklists and coverage maps are equally efficient. Some testers prefer one type of test guidance, some prefer another. The thing is that people are different; they favour different ways of representing and acquiring information.

So, Choosing Between a Checklist and a Coverage Map, One Should Keep in Mind That:

• checklists are better for those who prefer verbal information;
• coverage maps are more suitable for those who like images.

Coverage maps can be created in a special application, printed or drawn on paper. Such map may be worked out for each aspect of the software under test, for each testing type. On the maps testers can indicate what areas, aspects and functions have already been checked, what await checking. It is convenient to do so in course of mobile testing, desktop testing or web site testing.

Related Posts:

• How Healthy Is Your Testing Process? A Full Checklist[1]
• QA for Mobile Banking: Security is not all you have to handle[2]
• Limitations and Difficulties of the Checklists[3]

Source URL: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2014/05/08/what-is-the-difference-between-a-checklist-and-a-coverage-map/

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