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- RC=Release Candidate, meaning "Release Candidate", it is not the final version, but the last version before the final version (RTM=Release To Manufacture).
Broadly speaking, there are three traditional names for testing: alpha, beta, and gamma, which are used to identify the stage and scope of testing.
- Alpha refers to the internal test, which is now called CB, which refers to the version tested internally by the development team or the limited user experience test version. This version indicates that the software mainly implements software functions at this stage, and usually only communicates within the software developer. Generally speaking, this version of the software has many bugs and needs to be modified.
- A beta refers to a public beta, a beta version that is open to all users. Compared with the alpha version, this version has been greatly improved, and serious errors have been eliminated, but there are still some defects, which need to be further eliminated after many tests. The main modification object of this version is the UI of the software
- Gamma means that some modifications have been made to beta to become a candidate version for official release, which is now called RC (Release Candidate). The biggest difference from the Beta version is that new functions will always be added in the Beta stage, but in the RC version, almost no new functions will be added, and the main focus is on debugging!