From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing

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- [Instructor] You may have been asked before about your test coverage. This is often something that businesses are interested in. People want to know how much testing has been done and how much testing is left to do. But before we can talk about how you can report on test coverage, we need to talk a little bit about what it is. I want to start this explanation with something I saw on a webinar by Dorothy Graham. You can watch the webinar here on the EuroSTAR software testing site, and I really would recommend it if you want to dig in a little more into coverage and understanding what it is. Since we're talking about exploratory testing, let's think about this using a map. Imagine I have this world map, and I want to mark on it the coverage of all the places in the world that I've been. So let's say I've been to Paris, New York, Boston, Rio de Janeiro, and Melbourne, Australia. So if I were to fill in each of these…

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