Method and system for automatically identifying test runs contributing to coverage events of interest in verification test data

A method includes receiving from a user, via a user interface, coverage-event characteristics. Using a processor, output data of test runs executed on a device-under-test is analyzed to identify one or a plurality of coverage events that possess the coverage-event characteristics and to identify one or a plurality of contributing test runs in said test runs that contributed to said one or a plurality of coverage events. Information on said one or a plurality of contributing test runs is outputted via an output device.