There are a multitude of books out there to help you hone your Verification skills, as almost every Digital IC professional will tell you. The available books run the gamut of quality and ease of use. The major strength of this book is a place where many of those books fall down – they are not what they claim to be. Vanessa’s book is a great example of exactly what it claims to be – a guide for the “beginner”. “Beginner” is used loosely in this context because the book does not shy away from advanced concepts (the Factory, register package prediction, etc.)