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| I may not be able to play Minecraft anymore. |
| jellsprout | ||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
Quote: The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing (alpha is the first letter of the ancient Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white box techniques. Additional validation is then performed using black box or gray box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release.[1] Alpha software can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss. The exception to this is when the alpha is available publicly (such as a pre-order bonus), in which developers normally push for stability so that their testers can test properly. External availability of alpha software is uncommon in proprietary software. However, open source software, in particular, often have publicly available alpha versions, often distributed as the raw source code of the software. The alpha phase usually ends with a feature freeze, indicating that no more features will be added to the software. At this time, the software is said to be feature complete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_stage#Alpha This exactly describes Minecraft as it currently is. There are still major features being added with every important release, meaning Minecraft is still very far away from the feature freeze. No matter what Notch claims, the game is still in full alpha stage. Spoiler: | |
| KiNGskruffi | ||
Age: 34 Karma: 1 Posts: 45 Gender: Male Location: Germany pm | email |
This board's funny. And the quote is interesting, cause at the institute I work for, the alpha stage of the solutions we programmed always ended with the stability testing and features still could be added in beta stage.  But w/e. | |
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