I don't mean this as a criticism of a short beta. I'm just genuinely interested in the testing process.
If you look at the current known issues thread ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123365428 - spoilers, maybe?), there are quite a few act specific bugs -- with quests, the environment, monsters.
If only act 1 is being tested, how will blizzard prevent similar act specific bugs from appearing in the rest of the game?
I guess it would make sense if all of the known issues in the thread were already discovered through internal testing (meaning they've probably caught such issues in Act 2-4), but that'd be a phenomenal QA accomplishment if that were the case.
How will Act 2-4 bugs be caught?
If you look at the current known issues thread ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123365428 - spoilers, maybe?), there are quite a few act specific bugs -- with quests, the environment, monsters.
If only act 1 is being tested, how will blizzard prevent similar act specific bugs from appearing in the rest of the game?
I guess it would make sense if all of the known issues in the thread were already discovered through internal testing (meaning they've probably caught such issues in Act 2-4), but that'd be a phenomenal QA accomplishment if that were the case.
What we're looking for from the closed beta is simply a large number of testers to tax our servers, test the downloader, launcher, and patcher.