This book enables software test analysts to apply lessons learned at work. Presenting several software testing strategies, including how to use suggested testing processes and how to identify and record errors, failures, and defects, this volume teaches the fundamentals of writing effective test plans and test cases, concentrating on the importance of verifying good requirement specifications. Readers will learn to estimate, analyze, plan, execute, and manage software testing, as well as generate status reports and report defects. Focusing heavily on the essentials of testing, this book gives software test analysts the tools and strategies to effectively identify and record errors, failures, and defects in software.