Russian Beta

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Sergei wrote on the snowball forum actual quote :

internally, we passed beta with Russian version. externally, we are not yet ready to do the beta-testing which will be with a different focus than Paradox'es traditional way: we will ask beta-team to playtest only game balance, all other issues will be solved by the time they receive builds.

just passing it on, since a lot of ppl dont feel like facing the forum (@ snowball.ru)

 

[Phystarstk]

I saw that since it was a reply to my post in the first

 

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Well, to me, this: "internally, we passed beta with Russian version." sounds a bit like something they're doing in-house. Perhaps the normal "working-the-bugs-out" beta usually done by outside beta-testers is just being done by Snowball employees ahead of time.

 

[irishpony]

well the beta wasnt an extensive one like i said but there still was one eh

 

[unmerged(6160)]

It was inhouse which meant only the developers tested it...

 

[unmerged(6159)]

which technically means it wasn't a beta test at all, but rather an alpha test.

In software development, a beta test is the second phase of software testing in which a sampling of the intended audience tries the product out.

 

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Originally posted by Isaac Brock
which technically means it wasn't a beta test at all, but rather an alpha test.

But the in-house testing was performing many of the functions that generally occur in the "standard paradox" beta test, aside from from game balance. According the Sergei (quoted in the first post of this thread), that's the only thing they're going to be testing in their beta testing.

 

[daedalus]

Which may mean good or bad news. As some one said it, internal testing is only alpha testing. You got to have a sample of the intended audience to test the product to called beta testing. Beta testing does not mean that there's many bugs left in the product. Usually beta quality product should have been previously tested by a professional quality assurance team, and all the detected bugs fixed. In the other hand, it is almost impossible to ensure a product free of bugs. The most you can do is to insure all the known bugs have been addressed. Finally, developer testing is not really a recommended procedure of testing, bug more like part of the development process.
I wont comment on the paradox testing since I have never been a beta tester for any of their products.

 

[daedalus]

Oops, it could be good news in the sense that the alpha testing phase has been so good, that they feel confindent to declare the product free of bugs (which is rather pretentious). Or it can be bad news in the sense that they feel that no more bugs will be fixed as a product of the beta testing process.