Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 15:03:18 03/12/03
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The letter Beta in Greek was derived from the Phoenician language, where it was a B-consonant or Beth. In very early alphabets there were no vowels. The consonants should represent part of speach, to define the spoken language in written form. The term Alpha (inhouse) testing and Beta (outhouse) testing comes from IBM in the '60's IIRC. These were defined milestones in the production process. Earlier on there were also A-tests, B-tests and C-tests. The A-test was the feasibility test of the product, B was what we now call Alpha and C-testing is now Betatesting. Nice to know that there was also a D-test, a test after the product had been in producttion for some time. J.
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