# Beta releases require extensive community testing > [!quote] > "Your help testing Beta and RC versions is vital to making this release as stable and powerful as possible." Community testing catches edge cases that internal QA misses. Essential for WordPress's distributed development model. ## Links - [[Lit · Block validations prevent inaccessible content at source]] — complementary release gate: community beta testing and publish-time validation both catch defects before they reach users - [[Lit · Playground demos make FSE themes easier to trial]] — Playground lowers the cost of exactly the community testing this note calls vital - [[Maintainer Attention Is the Scarce Resource in Open Source]] — distributed community testing is how WordPress stretches scarce maintainer attention across the edge cases internal QA misses - [[3. Resources/MOCs/WordPress Platform Design MOC]] — applies-in: Joins the WordPress release process cluster. ## Source - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/WordPress 7.0 Beta 2]]