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Explain the types of Beta Testing 

In this article, you will learn the following:

• What are the different types of Beta Testing?
• Advantages of Beta Testing
• Disadvantages of Beta Testing

What are the different types of Beta Testing?

Beta testing has six types of testing. Each type has different aspects of the software. All of these help developers improve the quality of the software and allow them to deliver a product of excellent quality. The different types of beta testing:

• Open Beta Testing: It involves the testing of the software product by a large number of people before the release of the final product. It depends on the organization whether they want to make a software product open to the public or not before releasing the product. It includes the participation of a large number of people in testing the application. 
• Closed Beta Testing: It is completely opposite to open beta testing. It can only be implemented by a selective and limited number of people. The organization recruits people for testing. It is not open to the general public. 
• Traditional Beta Testing: It is delivered to the target market, collecting feedback from the user. It helps in improving the quality of the product and developers can also make changes easily.
• Public Beta Testing: It is kind of similar to open beta testing only. It also allows the product to be delivered to the end-users. From this, it collects the feedback and evaluates the data and the development team makes changes accordingly. 
• Technical Beta Testing: It is also an essential type of testing. It involves delivering the product to the internal groups of the organization. However, the data and feedback are taken by the employees of the organization. 
• Focused Beta Testing: It is focused on the monitoring and evaluation of specific features or components of the product. It is released in the market and collects user feedback and makes changes accordingly. 
• Post-release Beta Testing: In this, we deliver the product in the market to the end-users. Collects feedback, reactions, and experience for the future release of the product. 

Advantages of Beta Testing:

• It depends more on the customer’s satisfaction.
• It helps in reducing the risk of product failure. 
• It gets direct feedback from the user. 
• It helps the user to install, test, and send feedback regarding the product.

Disadvantages of Beta Testing:

• It does not test the functionality of the software in depth. 
• It is a waste of time and money to collect this much feedback. 
• This can be a time-consuming process sometimes.