Alpha, Beta, Snapshot, Release, Nightly, Milestone, Release Candidate(RC)… When to use which terminology
问题 As a build, release and deployment engineer, there are multiple types of releases as below: Alpha Beta Snapshot Release Nightly Milestone Release Candidate(RC) [Anything else] Would like to know the difference between them and the significance. 回答1: Alpha The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing (alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques.