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We propose a solution to improve the confidence on the correctness of applications designed to be executed in heterogeneous environments, like a grid. Our solution is motivated by the observation that the traditional ways to qualify test processes are based on code coverage metrics. We believe that this approach is not adequate when dealing with applications that can (and do) fail when interacting with heterogeneous execution environments. Besides code coverage, tests must also cover possible environments. As a solution we propose the utilization of InGriD to describe and deploy test environments and GridUnit to coordinate and monitor the execution of test sets. By combining these two solutions we provide a cost effective way to introduce environmental coverage to our test suites, which is complementary and orthogonal to traditional code coverage metrics. As a case study, we have shown how our solution could be applied to help testing a grid application called MyPhotoGrid, which uses the grid to parallelize the generation of large photograph albums.