[/B]I always thought a beta test of 5 was incredibly small, too small to be really useful as anything more than a marketing test. The bugs found bear this out. Our last beta was ~2500 users over several months, and at the end the product is very solid, even though that was a small beta test IMO.[/B]
Well, perhaps, but is it safe to presume that the beta you describe was for a software product that ran on a known hardware platform? If you are doing that sort of thing, a large beta not only makes sense, but it is relatively inexpensive to do. Yes, there are the development costs, of course, but you don't have to supply everyone with the hardware.
Perhaps some might say the Outlaw beta sample could have been larger, but how many reasonably expensive, one might even presume to be hand-built pre-production units would you expect them to build for a test? Remember, they would have to provide BOTH the hardware and software in such an enterprise!
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