What is beta testing?

What is beta testing?

Beta testing is a type of testing of external user acceptance and is the final round of testing carried out before a product is finally released to a wider audience. In this test, the software version is almost complete (90-95%), known as the beta version released to a number of end-users for testing. The beta testing method is done to get feedback on accessibility, usability, reliability, functionality, and other aspects of the software developed.

What is beta testing?

Stakeholders Beta Test is a product management team, Quality Management Team, and user experience team while beta testing participants are real users or end-product users.

What is the purpose of beta testing?

What is the purpose of beta testing

The beta testing method is done to get effective feedback for product improvement before launching a product to the market for a larger set of audiences. In addition, this is a fact that it is known that sustainable improvement is a sustainable process and continues with the aim of constantly evaluating and improving products over time.

When beta testing is done by real users or end-users, it provides more sincere and real-time insights about whether the product will be favored by end-users or not launched. In addition, beta testing also focuses on real product compatibility of products because products are tested in the production environment on various OS, devices, platforms, browsers, etc.

Benefits of beta testing

Benefits of beta testing

● Beta testing provides fast feedback on products and this helps improve product quality and thus makes the product more satisfying for customers even before the final release

● Beta testers test the reliability, usability, robustness of the software, and provide feedback/suggestions to developers to improve products to meet customer expectations

● Beta testing helps various organizational teams to make decisions based on information about a product depending on advice provided by testers who are real-time users

● Helps to close a bug in the software that might not be covered or has been missed during the testing cycle

● provide actual insight into customer likes and dislike about products because products are tested by real users in the production environment

● Helps improve the quality of the software

● reduce the risk of product failure because the product has been tested before launching it to the market

● Increase customer satisfaction because this product is improvised according to beta testing advice

What are the beta version release and beta testing types?

Release type beta version:

Beta version release type

Open the beta version:

Open the beta version is also known as a public beta version that is opened for all users. In this test, each user can access the beta version of the product and can provide feedback and advice that can help developers to improve the product. The open beta test presents multiple purposes because users can find and report bugs in software along with suggestions for repairs. Simultaneously, it also helps testers and developers to validate products in the production environment whether to meet customer expectations.