7 votes 7 votes Alpha and Beta testing are forms of Acceptance testing Integration testing System testing Unit testing IS&Software Engineering isro2015 is&software-engineering software-testing + – go_editor asked Jun 20, 2016 • retagged Nov 13, 2017 by Arjun go_editor 6.5k views answer comment Share Follow See all 3 Comments See all 3 3 Comments reply chirudeepnamini commented Mar 30, 2020 reply Follow Share @Arjun sir there is a mistake in the selected answer. option c should be the answer. Here is a screen shot from the book Fundamentals of Software Engineering by rajib mall 0 votes 0 votes Arjun commented Mar 30, 2020 reply Follow Share Do you have a reference from Pressman? 0 votes 0 votes chirudeepnamini commented Mar 31, 2020 reply Follow Share Sir i checked this topic in pressman book and this topic is discussed under validation testing concept . But in this NPTEL video at 16:30 sec, the professor considers alpha,beta, acceptance testing as system testing. This is confusing... 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
11 votes 11 votes acceptance testing alpha testing is done at developer site and beta testing at client side Sanjay Sharma answered Jun 20, 2016 Sanjay Sharma comment Share Follow See all 5 Comments See all 5 5 Comments reply Show 2 previous comments Shreya Roy commented Feb 22, 2017 reply Follow Share "System testing usually consists of three different kinds of testing activities: α – testing: It is the system testing performed by the development team. β – testing: It is the system testing performed by a friendly set of customers. acceptance testing: It is the system testing performed by the customer himself after the product delivery to determine whether to accept or reject the delivered product."- According to the book by Rajib Mall 1 votes 1 votes Bikram commented Feb 22, 2017 reply Follow Share Alpha and beta testings are kind of Acceptance testing and Acceptance testing is a kind of System testing . There should be no doubt about that. 1 votes 1 votes Ciado commented Mar 28, 2017 reply Follow Share Yaar, no need to complicate things. You might surely have used beta software. They are simply rolled out to check whether users accept the software or not. Not accurate, but I hope you get the point. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
8 votes 8 votes Alpha and beta testings are comes under Acceptance testing Acceptance testing is a kind of System testing System testing is a kind of Integration testing .. Integration testing is a kind of Unit testing . Hence option A is the correct answer . see the diagram in this link, it will be clear https://www.tutorialspoint.com/software_testing_dictionary/alpha_testing.htm Bikram answered Feb 21, 2017 Bikram comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply Dumbest Kid commented Apr 21, 2018 reply Follow Share What do you mean "Integration testing is a kind of Unit testing"? Once individual software components are unit tested, the whole system is integrated and then integration tests are performed. It is not like "Integration test is a kind of unit test" both are different! Correct it please. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.