(alsoalpha)ITasituationin which a newproduct,especiallynewsoftware, istestedfor the firsttimetocheckthat it isworkingcorrectly:He gave ademonstrationof the company's social-networkingphotosite, which is in alphatesting.
verb[T]Thedesktopapplicationiscompleteand is being alphatestedrightnow.
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beta test(Definition ofalpha testingfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofalpha testing
alpha testingThe game would go on to undergo extensivealphatesting, with beta testing finalizing the stress test portion of development.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the alpha value of a translucent fragment is not within a specified range, it will be discarded afteralphatesting.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Closedalphatestingwas held on a small cluster for some time, with about 3,000 players chosen from an initial pool of 50,000.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Translucent objects that are modelled using alpha-test textures will also be aliased due toalphatesting.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The public and developers eventually lost interest and the mod never got pastalphatestingstage.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/alpha-testing##
