What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 13 Yes | 3 No |
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
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 7 Yes | 3 No |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 1 No |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 2 No |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / thulasiram
UAT can be said as Alpha Testing, where as Pre-Production
can be said as Beta Testing .
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
Beta testing is a part of functional testing, which is done
at the client premises.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 1 No |
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
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 1 No |
What is way of writing testcases for database testing?
feasibility testing ??
What is the typical situation u faced while collecting the test data?
What is the difference between unit testing and smoke testing
What are the various test case for google analytics, api keys , pay pal if you know please post me a answer. And how we will test
Example for High Severity and low priority, High Severity High priority, Low Severity Low Priority, Low Severity High Priority?
what is the purpose of writing testcases?
what are the minimum requirements to start testing ?
which phase is most important in STLC phases? and why ?
1) How to test session ? 2) There is a website in which the user has to register to use its features. Suppose one user has registered in that site by paying some amount only for 1 month. Now i want to test the application that the user should not use the features of the site after 1 month. How to test it? The tester cannot wait for 30 days to test it....bear in mind..Thanks in advance...
What is the difference between Business Requirement and functional Requirement
How to write the test scenario?Explain by giving Example.