Development Environment
Development environment refers to a server tier designated to a specific stage in a release…
Development environment refers to a server tier designated to a specific stage in a release process.
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Environment/Tier Name
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Description
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Local
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Developer’s desktop/workstation
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Virtual Machine
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VM hosted on developers desktop or possibly development server
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Development
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Development server aka sandbox
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Integration
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CI build target, or for developer testing of side effects
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Test/QA
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For functional, performance testing, Quality Assurance etc.
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UAT
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User acceptance testing
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Stage/Pre-production
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Mirror of production environment
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Production/Live
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Serves end-users/clients
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Source: Wikipedia
