Which of the following correctly describes the goal of Statement Testing?

The goal of statement testing is to increase the percentage of executable statements that are exercised by a test set. This is also known as statement coverage or line coverage3 defines this as follows:

Statement Coverage (also known as Line Coverage) measures how many statements have been executed by your tests. It’s calculated by dividing the number of executed statements by total number statements in source code file.

Statement testing does not aim to reduce the number of tests needed to test the system (A), assess the correctness of key statements in each module of the application (B), or assess the number of code statements needed to implement each feature (D).