What is Alpha and Beta Testing?
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Answer / renuka & satish
Alpha Testing:-It is conducted at the Developer sight by
end users
Beta Testing:-It is conducted at the end users site
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Answer / vamci
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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Answer / bishwajit.rk
Alpha and Beta testing concepts are different from Product
based company and a Service based company.
In a Product based company:
Alpha Testing defines as the testing which is done at the
developer's site by the testers.
Beta testing is the testing done by the tester by
generating the customer's environment.
In a Service based company:
Alpha testing is the testing conducted by customers at
Developer's site.
Beta Testing is the process of giving the product to
customers and let them do the testing at their environment.
Note:
Simple fact, if ur company is Product based company, u
don?t have any customers as such. U developed ur won
product and sell in open market. Whoever buys ur product is
ur customers. So u usually tries to generate the possible
customer?s environment for testing both Alpha and Beta
Correct me if I m wrong!!!
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Answer / fahad
Alpha Testing
Tested at developer site by customer.
Developer "looks over shoulder" and records errors & usage
problems.
Tests are conducted in a controlled environment.
Beta Testing
Conducted at one or more customer sites by end user of
software.
Live application environment cannot be controlled by
developer.
Customer records all problems encountered and reports to
developer at regular intervals.
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Answer / raji
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.
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Answer / krishna kadiyala
Alpha testing is done by end users in development site,this
test is suitble for application.
beta testing is done by real customers in customer site,
this is suitble for
products.
The different between application&product.
application is used by with in the company,but product is
used globally.
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Answer / abhishek chaturvedi
Alfa testing performs befor imlementaion of S/W at
developer's Site.
And
Beta Testing performs after imlimentaion and before
mantinance at client site.
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Answer / dipti surve
Alpha testing-- Simulated or actual operational testing by
potential users/customers or an independent test team at
the developers'site, but outside the development
organization.
Beta testing--operational testing by potential and/or
existing users/customers at an external site not otherwise
involved with the developers, to determine whether or not a
component or system satisfies the user/customer needs &
fits within the business processes. Beta testing is ofen
employed as a form of external acceptance testing for off-
the-shelf software in order to acquire feedback from the
market.
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Answer / sharmila juvekar
In short,
Alpha testing = Developer's site by customer
Beta Testing = Customer's site from customer end.
Can say the part of Acceptance testing
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Answer / arun
alpha testing : client ask to test the s/w in testing
enviornment in presence of developer and tester
beta testing : after releasing the product specific client
doing testing example . yahoo messenger 8.1.0 beta version ,
they release that product for the client to know whether it
is satisfied the cuostmer requirement as we developed it .
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