Hello Maxim,

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:39:45 +0200 GMT (30/Jan/10, 0:39 AM +0700 GMT),
Maxim Masiutin wrote:

>>>Alpha testing is done in-house right after coding something new or
>>>trying to fix a bug; it's done in-house as it may have new bugs or the
>>>fix doesn't work. 


MM> Alpha testing is not necessarily done in-house. Some companies
MM> release alpha versions to the public. Anyway, each company adopts
MM> its own software release life cycle habits. We do not follow the
MM> strict steps from pre-alpha to alpha to beta to gamma to RC to RTM
MM> to GA. We call software "alpha" or "beta" or "release" depending
MM> on our estimates of probability of complications that the software
MM> can cause. We may be wrong in our estimates. 

Thank you for outlining your company philosophy. I'll try to deal with
it and be selective with the versions I download.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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