There were traditionally two stages of testing a game: alpha testing and beta testing. Alpha testing took place inside the company and was meant to solve the worst bugs. In beta testing, the game is released in an unfinished form so a limited number of members of the public can help test it. read more
Long story short, the term “beta” refers to a product’s stage of development. read more
Some games go through numerous stages of closed beta testing titled “Closed Beta 2”, “Closed Beta 3”, “Closed Beta 4” and so on. As the name implies, this stage of testing is still “closed” from the public, but is much more extensive than Alpha Testing. read more