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To bring a quality assurance perspective to technical editing,
Corbin and others mapped types of edit to types of testing, for
example, “system testing to comprehensive editing” and “function
testing to copyediting”.

Other variations
As web-based on-demand proofreading and editing services have
become increasingly available, the number of edit levels and editing

schemes has increased in variety. For example, three cumulative
levels is a common scheme, typically 1) light, 2) medium, and 3)
heavy editing, although another three-level scheme appears frequently
across websites: 1) proofreading and 2) light and 3) heavy editing.

Four levels usually differs from a three-level scheme only by the
inclusion of a mid-range level, such as 1) basic proofreading and 2)
light, 3) medium, and 4) heavy editing. No matter the scheme, a level

of edit defined as heavy often results in a complete rewrite. And one
web-based service offers six levels of edit according to a partially
cumulative scheme:

1 Basic proofreading
2 Complete editing without comments
3 Complete editing with comments

4 Manuscript critique
5 Formatting and layout
6 Verification of citation sources.
Based on the function of the edit and the working unit to which

it applies, eight levels of edit are also presented, as follows.
1 Developmental outline: Technical document
2 Technical: Document

3 Style: Document
4 Literary: Paragraph
5 Copy: Sentence
6 Format: Character

7 Production: Character
8 Review: Document