What is Alpha and Beta Testing?
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Answer / deepu
Alpha Testing:
Done at the developer's site by the real customer, where the developer "looks over the shoulder" and notes the errors.
Beta Testing:
Done by one or more end-users of the software at customer's place. And if there are any changes to be made, they will be informed to the developers at regular intervals and will be implemented in the next version of release.
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Answer / arun
alpha testing means where the test going to be conducted
with out customer intervention
and beta testing is where the test is to be conducted in
customer presence.
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Answer / sravan kumar.p
Alpha testing : done by developer. Testing of an application when development is nearly completing. Minor design changes may still be made .
Beta testing: done by tester .Essentially completed and final bugs and problems need to be found before final release.
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Answer / bman
I bring this answer from a lifetime of software development
so view it in that context. If you're building a car, look
to other responses for your answer.
Alpha testing is conducted by the development team. When a
product is bug free (enough) it is passed to a group of
willing end users who will perform Beta testing. When Beta
testing is revealing nothing significant in the way of new
bugs or change requests, an in-house product might go into
Pilot mode with a larger group of users before going on to
full Production. For an externally used product it will go
from Beta to Production.
In Alpha testing, "Bug free (enough)" can be determined by
the project managers as the Alpha testing progresses but
ideally, a limit should be set before Alpha begins. e.g.
When the Alpha test team is discovering fewer than 5 new
low level bugs in a week it is time to give the users
involved with Beta testing. There should be a similar bug
count limit on Beta testing. Live by the law of diminishing
returns,
I see three key events that must take place while
developing software... Stop designing and start coding.
Stop coding and start testing. Stop testing and start
using. It is too easy to get hooked up on the each of these
phases. You can design, code or test a product to death.
Recognize when it is time to move on. If you can’t get out
of one of these phases, you should look very closely at who
you have in the project team, chiefs and indians.
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Answer / bharat aggarwal
Alpha testing
Alpha testing is simulated or actual operational testing by potential users/customers or an independent test team at the developers' site. Alpha testing is often employed for off-the-shelf software as a form of internal acceptance testing, before the software goes to beta testing.
Beta testing
Beta testing comes after alpha testing and can be considered a form of external user acceptance testing. Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the programming team. The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can ensure the product has few faults or bugs. Sometimes, beta versions are made available to the open public to increase the feedback field to a maximal number of future users.
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Answer / chithra devi thangavelu
Alpha Testing is the testing done by the develpopers.
Beta testing is the tesing done by the end users.
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Answer / ankita
Typically a software product passes through two stages of testing before it is considered to be Final. The first stage is known as "Alpha Testing". It is often performed by potential users / customers or an independent test team at the developers' site. It is usually done when the development of the software product is nearing completion; minor design changes may still be made as a result of Alpha testing.
The second stage coming after alpha testing is known as "Beta Testing". Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the programming team so that further evaluation by the users can reveal more faults or bugs in the product. Sometimes, beta versions are made available to the open public to increase the feedback field to a maximum number of future users.
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Answer / sindhu c
In software development, your alpha test, will be a test
among yourselves (the teams) to confirm that your product
works. Originally, the term alpha test meant the first
phase of testing in a software development process. The
first phase includes unit testing, component testing, and
system testing.
In software development, a beta test is the second phase of
software testing in which a sampling of the intended
audience tries the product out. Beta testing can be
considered "pre-release testing."
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Answer / jaya
Alpha Testing: Simulated or actual operational testing
performed by end users within a company but outside
development group.
Beta Testing: Simulated or actual operational testing
performed by a sub-set of actual customers outside the
company.
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Answer / arnab
1) Alpha Testing:-It is conducted at the Developer sight by
end users
Beta Testing:-It is conducted at the end users site
2) Alpha Testing:Testing of a s/w pruduct or system conducted
at the developer sites by the customer.
Beta Testing:Conducted at the more than one customers by
the end user of delivered s/w product.
3) If the software is Application then Alpha testing will be
done.
Alpha Testing:
If the testers and real customers combinedly
test the software in development site then it is called
Alpha testing.
If the software is product then Beta testing will be done.
Beta Testing:
If the testers and model customers combinedly
test the software in customer site,then it is called Beta
testing.
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