Beta testing

A Beta Tester.

File:Betahat.jpg

The Party hat.

Beta testing is when people sign up to help fix the bugs in the beta version of Club Penguin and report them so Club Penguin could fix them. People who signed up are called Beta Testers, also known as betas. When Club Penguin was publicly launched, the team held a party to thank Beta Testers, in which the yellow and pink party hat was given out in the Town. Beta testers usually wear this hat as it shows that they are a beta tester. Most beta testers have names like "fano" or "JaMeS" that have a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters. Although, when Club Penguin launched the CPIP test server, the names were changed so "fano" is now "Fano" and "JaMeS" is now "James". However, on August 4th, 2009, Most beta testers' names have been restored, turning "Fano" into "fano", or "James" into "JaMeS". Today, these penguins are considered very rare, as most have quit because they have either gotten too old or just got bored. Betas most likely have the Shamrock Pin because it was the first pin released on Club Penguin.

List of beta testers

See List of Beta Testers.

Trivia

• Penguins who participated in the Club Penguin Improvement Project testing are sometimes thought to be betas, but are not.
• When penguins share accounts, one penguin sometimes tricks the other by telling them they have a beta hat, but they actually mean the Red Construction Hat. However, in the long future, people will like accounts with this hat as it released on the third year of Club Penguin.
• Beta Testers are easily spotted on servers like Sleet and Mammoth. Many Beta watchers go there, and many rare penguins go there, too.
• The reason why Beta Testers are rare is because they are not seen very often - usually caused by them quitting.
• Most Beta Testers have no numbers in their Penguin name, since newer penguins usually have their desired user name already chosen, and therefore extend it with numbers to make it unique.
• Within an hour of the Beta being launched, the servers crashed and had to be reset. This occurred many more times in the future.
• After the Beta ended, testers were rewarded by receiving 1,000 coins, one month of paid membership, and also got to keep the Party Hat.
• There are two new clothing items in the Series 6 Treasure Book that are name-wise and colour-wise related to Beta testing. They are called the Beta Hat T-Shirt and Beta Grid Sweater. Having these in possession does not mean you are a real beta tester, however many claim they are.
• If you go to the first year anniversary yearbook, on the first page there are penguins about to hold up a sign that say beta but it only says bet.
• If you go to the 2008 and 2009 yearbook, on the front cover, penguins are wearing hats that are all anniversary hats and beta hats.
• Many beta testers only wear the Party Hat these days, just to get crowds and be "popular".
• Rumors are going around saying moderators can become betas (even if they did not join in beta days). This has been proved by Gizmo.
• After the beta, Boiler Room, Dance Lounge and Gift Shop are closed because there is lots of bugs, the room closing news is available in the newspaper. After mid-2006, Club Penguin no longer close the rooms easily to fix the bugs, but they replaced with something else, such in Ice Rink, which the puck is not available during July 2008, because Green Puffle is enjoying the puck all the time. The rooms that are closed after beta are: Boiler Room returned in April 2006 after the fix of the news archive., while two other returned in December 2005.

Beta Party gallery

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  The Town during the Beta Party.
• The Book Room during the Beta Party. Most of the Mods can be seen here playing or watching mancala.
  The Book Room during the Beta Party. Most of the Mods can be seen here playing or watching mancala.
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  Another picture of the Town during the party.

See also

• Party Hat