A Guide on How To Be A Good Beta Tester

[Roy Awesome]

Originally Posted by Bags

>implying you can test a game of this scale with small groups of players.

Smed has said current subscribers will be among the first into beta. suck it

You can. Basic software testing for bugs is done via code, not human testing. What they probably want is a group to stress test the server. They will get that

[SurgeonX]

Originally Posted by Roy Awesome

Basic software testing for bugs is done via code, not human testing.

Crikey, you must work in some sort of amazing development utopia

If you are talking about unit testing, then yes, it can be used to ensure that the code is correct before being checked in. But where I work, bugs are still identified by manual and automated scripts, and ad-hoc testing.
I can't imagine any Test Team Leaders in our place trusting only unit tests to find bugs.
But then, we do have 20 year old spaghetti code with a mish-mash of UI, business and data layers.