OpenEuphoria

Re: pre-alpha, alpha, beta

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 12, 2004
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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> 
> On freshmeat --> browse --> development status,
> there is a list of 6 stages of development of a project.
> Among them are:
> 
> 2 - Pre-Alpha

Planning stages. No code written except maybe some prototypes
or experiments. Requirements gathering and documentation are the
main activities.

> 3 - Alpha

Some code written but not the entire system/application. Certain
areas are expected to fail because they are not complete.

> 4 - Beta

System/application is essentially complete and serious testing has begun.
This is often tested by people who are NOT the developers.

> 
> There seems to be no explanation on freshmeat of what these mean,
> nothing in the FAQ, etc.
> 
> Is there an exact meaning of these 3 terms?
> 
> If I have a project that seems to work but needs more testing to be sure
> that it works, which stage is it in?

Beta


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia