Next to the askville sign, it says "BETA". What is BETA?

Next to the askville sign, it says "BETA". What is BETA? Asked by Drummer4Life 59 months ago Similar questions: askville sign BETA Amazon > Askville.

Beta Beta means "Mostly working, but still under test". Software often go through two stages of release, Alpha= in-house and Beta=out-house. To beta-test is to test a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected (or self-selected) customers and users (we Askville users).

This term derives from early 1960's terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. `Alpha Test' was the unit, module, or component test phase; `Beta Test' was initial system test. Sources: Me & IBM .

Beta is when they are working out all the bugs When a program or type of software says BETA it means that it is a pre-release and they are using it to do testing and see if everything is working right. The actual release version may look a little different. I found an article on wikipedia that explains it in much more detail.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage#... .

First release Beta versions of software are the first release of software. Typically they have most (if not all) of the features of the final release, but still exist in a testing mode, meaning that bugs and problems may be identified as the software is used. Beta versions are testing versions of software.

For Askville, the software is a relatively recent release from Amazon, and until Amazon considers it to be fully functional and plans to fully support it, it will likely remain in beta. You might also take a look at the idea of perpetual betas (wikipedia entry below) - software that is always in a testing stage. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage#... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_beta .

Still in testing Beta testing comes after alpha testing. Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the company. The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can ensure the product has few faults or bugs.

Sometimes, beta versions are made available to the open public to increase the feedback field to a maximal number of future users. Sources: wikipedia .

It means the Askville site is still under development. A "beta" release of software might still have bugs in it. A "beta" release of software traditionally was a very solid version that the company felt was so nearly finished that it was ready to release out to a wider audience than just the internal development team.In fact, in many cases, the "beta" version had all the features implemented and the company was just looking for people to be "beta testers" to help find some of the tricky bugs that the internal testing team hadn't been able to find yet.

The more people who are using a product, the more likely they are to flush out the rarely reproduced bugs. However nowadays (and as is the case with Askville), you will often see "beta" versions of software which aren't even finished yet. Features are still being added, and suggestions are being solicited from the beta testers to help improve the product.

The name "beta" comes from the second letter in the Greek alphabet (after alpha, which is the first). (The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet). So a "beta" version is called that, because there was typically an "alpha" version which came out earlier, which was released only internally within the company.

I am guessing that Askville tested widely within the amazon. Com employee base first before releasing the site to the world. Now we all who are using it are beta testers.

And at some point they will decide that it's finished and remove the "beta" tag from the logo, just as "Blogger Beta" did recently. There isn't as much fanfare upong "shipping" software anymore with this new online release model as there would have been when a company would release its final version after the beta. There often would have been several beta versions, leading up to the final release.

Beta 1, Beta 2, etc. The decision whethre to release a second or third beta would depend on how unstable the product turned out to be once it was hammered on by a whole lot of beta teters. Then finally, when the development team felt that all of the bugs had been found and fixed, they would make a Release Candidate on disk, which was going to be the final shipping version if no problems were found with the installation disks. At this point, no more bugs would be fixed.

They'd just have to wait until the next version, unless an extremely serious "show-stopper" bug was found.In which case it was back to the drawing board and a new release candidate would be made after that one was fixed. It was quite a rush when the product finally "went golden" (the final release candidate that was ready for duplication and packaging), and there'd be lots of celebration in the hallways. I used to work in an environment like this, which is where I get my information..

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