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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 7928104" data-attributes="member: 6804070">lol I don't think those definitions are as widely accepted in the industry (which "industry by the way?) as you might think. I've spent much-o time-o listening to industry professionals argue about terms like alpha testing, smoke testing, development environment, UAT, etc.I have found that even very strict legally binding trade definitions are not commonly used in those ways except in very specific cases, and then usually only with a referral to a specific definition. Just Google '<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+alpha+test&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS784US785&oq=definition+of+alpha+test&aqs=chrome..69i57.5099j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">definition of alpha test</a>' and I really think you need to give up the argument that the broader software industry has any one definition of alpha test or alpha software. (Edit: other than alpha testing comes before beta testing and beta testing comes before production release. That's about the only common, but near useless, definition their is.)I'm sure your company in your industry has a common definition of what you mean, but the wider 'industry' does not.Language is not static, it is dynamic and changing. Every word has connotations, and people have different connotations to words (and phrases) depending upon their experiences and other factors. All that matters is that those using a word/phrase and those who try to understand such do so in the context in which it is used. Any definition outside of that context is spurious.</blockquote>

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