"Testing of a product by a friendly customer or customers who are willing to use the product as intended so that any issues or problems can be uncovered and resolved." (Steven Haines, "The Product Manager's Desk Reference", 2008)
"The process of testing a program before you release the program to the end user." (Greg Perry, "Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours" 2nd Ed., 2001)
"Operational testing by representative users/customers in the production environment of the user/customer. With a beta test, a kind of external acceptance test is executed in order to get feedback from the market and in order to create an interest with potential customers. It is done before the final release. Beta test is often used when the number of potential production environments is large." (Tilo Linz et al, "Software Testing Foundations, 4th Ed", 2014)
"Operational testing by potential and/or existing customers/users at an external site not otherwise involved with the developers, to determine whether or not a component of system satisfies the user needs and fits within the business processes. Beta testing is often employed as a form of external acceptance testing in order to acquire feedback from the market." (ISTQB)
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