Experience in software development, testing, and QA (Quality Assurance) is a great benefit. Understanding your computer's file system and being able to edit text files is important. You may be asked to send various files on your system to us, to modify files, to change Registry settings (Windows), or to install a program manually rather than using an installer.
Beta testers should be experienced with using OSCAR and interpreting their data. Beta testing is not the place to learn how to use OSCAR and read the data. (We make exceptions for users with newly supported machines that have been unable to user use OSCAR until now.)
== Hazards of Beta testing ==