What are the advantages and disadvantages of test coverage?

[anna-prokofieva]

Can someone explain the advantages and disadvantages of test coverage?

[abhayklt]

Advantages:

• Not much experience Required as the test performed are the part of black box testing.
• It allows to compare the test outcomes across the variuos specification documents

Disadvantages:

• No scope of automation
• Not any concrete way of measuring test coverage