Why write a checklist + test cases instead of just test cases?

Question

Software testing

Hello colleagues.
I'm trying to implement an adequate software testing system in my company, immersing myself in the topic. I watched the Technosphere course on software testing and it talked about the need to write checklists from which test cases are created.
Questions arose: does it make sense to write checklists and test cases separately? What are the benefits of having checklists? Wouldn't it be wiser to write test cases without checklists to save time?

Answer 1

Of course, the author of the course got a deuce for the explanation, he never gave it :) Another thing is that most likely the form of documenting the check was meant here. A checklist is a simple form of checking: it’s there, it’s there, it’s normal here, there’s nothing there either. Test cases are usually much more complex, voluminous and diverse, since many checks do not fit into the checkboxes.