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testing performed by users and clients comparison table

Subject	has definition	have purpose	perform by	have advantage
acceptance testing	Testing performed by customers, on their own initiative, to decide whether software is sufficiently acceptable to pay for	to decide whether software is of sufficient quality either to purchase or to pay a custom developer to choose between several competing generic products	customers on their own initiative
alpha testing	Testing performed by the user or client, under the supervision of the software development team			you typically are able to have a much larger volume of testing performed the users use the software in the same manner that they will use it when it is formally released
beta testing	Testing performed by the user or client in a normal work environment			you typically are able to have a much larger volume of testing performed the users use the software in the same manner that they will use it when it is formally released

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