Labels:book | daily | house | kite | mountain | newspaper | railing | sky | trade name | tree OCR: 504 SECTION CHAPTER Is the life cycle of a software product similar to that of a hard- ware product? Software like hardware begins with an idea that shaped by design team and marketing experts. A team programmers then works to produce executable programs and support modules for the new software product. Most software products undergo extensive testing before they are released The first phase of f testing, called an alpha test, is carried oot by the software publisher's in-house testing team. Errors, or bugs, found during the alpha test phase are fixed, and then the software enters sec- ond testing phase called a beta test Typically, beta test is conducted by team of off- -site testers, such as professional testing company. Sometimes software publisher releases beta version of the software ...
