Beta Testing

Two very important phases of the testing are alpha testing and beta testing. But when it comes to real environment Beta testing is one that helps companies, corporates or individuals releasing their applications. 

Whenever a product is developed, it's quality is assured internally by the testing teams. But this is not enough to make the release. We never know what people expect from the application and what all bugs in the system exist or may be some feedback they can come produce (as per user prospective).  It is always a great idea to get the product tested by the actual group of users who are going to use it because it is ultimately made for their convenience. 

There is nothing special that the users does but access the product as normal user does. Some might not be even aware of what actually beta in the site or product means. Whenever a user gives feedback about the feedback is noted down and the team makes the improvement to produce in the final release. In this was beta testing helps corporates to produce their best in software according to end user requirements.

So every time before launching the real product a beta version is launched to make is completely tested by end user and also this version has beta written on it.

As this image suggests, before the actual version of android is made available to users, its beta version is made available to a group of users so that it may be tested well and all the issues are fixed.

Image Credits: http://theflud.tumblr.com/post/6471987342/finally-flud-for-android-beta-testers-wanted