Quote Originally Posted by Lirion View Post
I'm guessing week 1 is phase 1, week 2 phase 2 and so on.
Sounds right, but if all they are doing is stress testing they shouldn't need a a week per phase, Alpha is more of a prepping stage for Beta. Once they can able to bring in alot of people to test say 1,000 a server without breaking a sweat then they could enter closed beta. Once they can hold like 5k a server then they can go into open beta. Once they can see no major bugs and most bug squashed then they could go Retail. We as testers need to make sure we get all the bugs we can see =).