>>>If only "Beta" testers are used, what test methodology is used? Anything formal or whatever the Beta tester chooses to do?
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>>Become a beta tester to find out. Which brings up a good point, how come everyone here that is complaining about bugs wasn't finding these bugs as a beta tester?
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>Maybe they were too busy testing their own applications & didn't have time to spend doing free testing for somebody else.

Surely even their applications would have had forms with editboxes? Unless of course the beta version was ok, and the bug crept in later?

Perhaps a pre-release checklist needs to be created for the next version, and one of the steps needs to be: create an application.exe and test it.

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