I guess it would depend if I was importing offshore material to use as filler in my product. Then I definitely would not use my own "dogfood".

I have always enjoyed trying out new software and finding creative ways to break it from what I perceived as normal user interaction.

Back in the old days when software came with printed and bound manuals, they were usually written by the same developer/programmer who was deficient in conversational language. In other words, those writers automatically assumed you already understood certain aspects of the program which of course was not true.

If I could figure out how to make a decent living doing the beta testing, I would do it but it appears to be much cheaper just to throw the product out there and fix it until the next revision comes along and you no longer have to support the old one.