2006-06-16 07:15:07 · 13 answers · asked by frankierrock 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
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2006-06-16 07:18:26 · answer #1 · answered by skyguy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is alpha, beta and production releas.
A lot of companies struggle with the definition of each category therefore expectatins change.
For instance, I use to work for a s/w company that sold security, scheduling and a program that documented s/w changes caled Librarian. This companies feeling was anything alpha was good for the customers. They considered it as "beta".
So, alpha really is an internal release to the company or a very short list of customers that will endure the problems with s/w that very well might crash their systems. These customers typically would have another computer system to test the changes without impacting their business environment.
Beta is for those customers that either have a separate system for testing or, the changes made would assist them with an error that is causing a disruption to their production services.
Feedback is expected from bothe the alpha and beta users so as to make the product more stable.
2006-06-16 14:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by frodo.baggins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Software under development goes through various levels of release.
An ALPHA version is usually the first working version for evaluation purposes. This is usually kept inside the company.
The next level is a BETA version. This is usually fairly cleaned up, but may contain some horrible unforseen bugs. This is the point when the company will look for people that want to be GUINEA PIGS, and provide FREE test and evaluations of their work. Generally, a good test engineer gets paid to check something out, so the beta tester is working for FREE.
Good luck with that.
2006-06-16 14:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BETA, is a software made by a comapny that has had initial testing. but before it gfoes out to the paying public. real people outside the company will be brave and use it for a while and any problems that are encountered, they tell the software company and will try and fix it.
they will then fix those errors and eventually when theres like a 90% sucess rate they will release it.
The new version of msn messenger is in beta and im testing and so far nothing has gone wrong. like the new version of windows and office is in beta as well
2006-06-22 12:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
beta usually refers to programs that are still in the testing stage it can be very risky to download beta programs
2006-06-16 15:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by guessisking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beta is the version of s/w which is for testing purpose. usually it is provided to general users so that bugs from real use can be identified.
2006-06-16 15:18:39 · answer #6 · answered by saqib 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An initial production version of software...not yet for commercial release and designed for IT persons with a good knowledge of computers
2006-06-16 14:17:16 · answer #7 · answered by Sam F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 'trial' version of a program that has been released to the public to see how well it works / how popular it is etc.
2006-06-17 09:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by Matt W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alpha test: It's so ugly and buggy you wouldn't show it to your mother.
Beta test: Hey, mom, look at this.
Gamma test: The rest of the life of the software.
2006-06-16 14:20:19 · answer #9 · answered by metavariable 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
2006-06-16 14:19:42 · answer #10 · answered by TAFF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋