what is the difference between alpha testing & user acceptance testing ?

Alpha testing - Testing the AUT during the Alpha phase(Development and Testing Combined Together). It is just a Term and any kind of testing can be done during this phase.User Acceptance testing - Users(Customer) of the system will conduct these tests to know whether the system is functioning properly according to their requirements.

Alpha testing - testing of an application when development is nearing completion; minor design changes may still be made as a result of such testing. Typically done by end-users or others, not by programmers or testers.

 

Acceptance testing - final testing based on specifications of the end-user or customer, or based on use by end-users/customers over some limited period of time.

 

ALPHA TESTING: It is project based testing it takes in the vertual environiment with the company of testing team

 Acceptance testing :Its also called as user acceptanec testing it meens

its testing will conduct before the customer side peopel whether the product reaches to customer expectations or not 

Hi,

Alpha - with dummy data,in company

Accepetance -with real data in users environment

Hi

Alpha testing is done for product-based software, example companies develop their own product for Banks or other organizations which are general and any organization can use those products.

UAT is done for project-based software, example projects what we get from the clients to develop software for use only by that client.

correct me if i am wrong.

Bhavani