This book is aimed at emphasising the fundamental concepts associated with software quality and software testing from a balanced perspective of theory and practice. By presenting the information in an abstracted form, this text guides the readers through all aspects of developing quality software (across the entire development life cycle). The book is written around the strategy of error avoidance, error detection (and correction) and error tolerance (as a last resort). This text is well suited for teaching an academic course as a part of the computer science and/or information technology and/or MCA curriculum or for conducting an equivalent training programme for professionals. Key features: Emphasises on management people issues in quality management, written in bullet point form, chapters follow the natural evolution of quality management