It occurred to me that I use the term "beta" to describe a "release candidate" of a computer product that has passed all expectations of the development team, and is now being given limited exposure to users at large for comment.
However, I have no idea how the term came to be, or what context it originally was used in. If we use "beta", then "alpha" must have been used at some point (possibly to refer to the internal QA testing period).
Was "gamma" ever used? Who came up with this nomenclature for the QA process?
Best Answer
There are some phases in Software Developing.
About other names being used, here's some info:
You can read more about this here.
About the origins of this usage, I found a page written by Jeff Atwood, where he writes:
But where did these terms originate? There's an uncited Wikipedia section that claims the alpha and beta monikers came, as did so many other things, from the golden days of IBM: