beta test

¹

noun

1. Psychology. a set of mental tests designed to measure the general intelligence of individuals unable to read and write adequately or at all, used by the U.S. Army in World War I.
2. Computers. a quality-control technique in which hardware or software is subjected to trial in the environment for which it was designed, usually after debugging by the manufacturer and immediately prior to marketing. Compare alpha test.

beta-test

²

[ bey-tuh-test ]

verb (used with object)

1. Computers. to subject (software or hardware) to a beta test.

beta-test

noun

1. a test of a new or modified piece of computer software by customers who volunteer to do so

verb

1. See alpha-test
   to test (software) in this way Compare alpha-test

Example Sentences

While Facebook conducts an enormous beta test in our public spaces, concerned people will be even more on guard in public and may even take evasive measures, such as wearing hats or glasses, or turning away from anyone wearing Ray-Bans.

From MIT Technology Review

Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking program, Birdwatch, launched as a beta test in January, has already run into trouble with the poor quality of user-flagging.

From Science News

The positive reward system has so far proven successful during beta tests, as around 66% of Newness viewers, on average, end up chatting during live streams, Qian says.

From TechCrunch

This summer, ahead of the game's final-stretch beta test, the developers at Asobo Studio used a screen-share feature in a video call to tease the VR mode to us at Ars Technica.

From Ars Technica

A selection of advertisers across the expanding list of LSA categories will now have access to bidding in a new beta test.

From Search Engine Land

And in Wisconsin, with a willing governor, they found their beta test.

From The Daily Beast