Proving the release candidate works on silicon across boards, configurations, operating systems and use cases: functional, performance, power, stress, security and update testing on hardware-in-the-loop rigs, compliance and interoperability testing, and beta use by sampling customers.
This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.
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