What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / guest

Both are belongs to UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
Alpha testing will be perfomed by the customer in developers
environment before delivering the product to the customer.
Beta testing will be performed by the users in
production/customer site after the delivering of project to
customer.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / meena

Alpha Test is done among the team members itself, it is the
1st phase in testing.

Beta Testing is the testing where the audience tries the
product, also called as Pre release testing

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / shail

Alpha Testing : Testing done by end user / customer within

the company in the presence of Developer before release.

Beta Testing : Testing done by end user at customers site
in the absence of Developer Team , the application is
uncontrolled but still not live.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / santosh

Alfa & Beta testing is basically connected with acceptance
testing, but the envioroment is diffrent like in beta
testing we test the software at client end, but in alfa
testing client is invlove with developer envioroment.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / anjali

Alpha and Beta testing is a part of the User Acceptance
Testing.
But Alpha Testing is done when the application is nearly
complete and so minor design changes can still be made here.
Developers,test engineers and the customer site
representatives involve in this.
WHERE AS
Beta testing is testing an application when the development
and testing are essentially complete and final problems and
defects are to be sorted out.End-User typically involve
here.
It is done at the client site.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / ranjith

Both alpha and beta testing are part of UAT(User Acceptance
testing).
Alpha Testing : It is the test done by the client at the
developer’s site.
Beta Testing : This is the test done by the end-users at
the client’s site.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / siva

Alpha Testing is done by developers in developers
Environment with presence of client. Incase you have found
any defects we can rectify immediately.

Beta Testing is done at customer's environment. It is real
testing. If u found any defects immediate rectification is
not possible.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / thulasiram

UAT can be said as Alpha Testing, where as Pre-Production
can be said as Beta Testing .

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / santosh yadav

Beta testing is a part of functional testing, which is done
at the client premises.

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What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?..

Answer / seshareddy

alpha and beta testing are part of UAT and both are to
collect feedback on software build from customers.difference
is
alphatesting:1. it is sutable for software applications
2. by real customer site representatives
3. in development site invinorment
4direct involment of testers and developers
Beta testing:1. sutable for software product
2. by model customer site people
3. in model customer site
4.indirect involment of developers and testers

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