Context: Beta testing comes after alpha testing and can be considered a form of external user acceptance testing. Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the programming team known as beta testers. The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can ensure the product has few faults or bugs. Beta versions can be made available to the open public to increase the feedback field to a maximal number of future users and to deliver value earlier, for an extended or even indefinite period of time (perpetual beta).[citation needed]

Question: What typically comes after the Alpha stage in the development and testing of software?
Answer: Beta testing

Question: To whom is the beta testing released to?
Answer: limited audience outside of the programming

Question: What is it called when a public test continues indefinitely?
Answer: perpetual beta

Question: What type of testing comes before alpha testing?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Beta versions are released to a broad audience known as what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why are alpha version made available to the public?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the term for the public test that continues for a definite amount of time?
Answer: Unanswerable