Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) is a professional designation in property-casualty insurance and risk management.
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. A User Experience Prototype captures enough aspects of the intended design that it can support user research. 2  A Visual Prototype captures the size and appearance, but not the functionality, of the intended design.
In software development, a beta test is the second phase of software testing in which a sampling of the intended audience tries the product out. Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally, the term alpha test meant the first phase of testing in a software development process. The first phase includes unit testing, component testing, and system testing. Beta testing can be considered pre-release testing..