Development environment

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Development environment may refer to Integrated development environment.

In hosted software (eg web site/application, database not shrinkwrap software) development, Development environment refers to a server tier designated to a specific stage in a release process.

Development, staging, and production is a common arrangement of tiers.

A more comprehensive list of tiers:

Environment/Tier Name	Description
Local	Developer's desktop/workstation
Virtual Machine	VM hosted on developers desktop or possibly development server
Development	Development server aka sandbox
Integration	CI build target, or for developer testing of side effects
Test/QA	For functional, performance testing, Quality Assurance etc.
UAT	User acceptance testing
Stage/Pre-production	Mirror of production environment
Production/Live	Serves end-users/clients

[edit] See also

• Application lifecycle management
• Release Management
• Software deployment

[edit] External links

• |Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development
• |The Development, Staging, and Production Model
• |Development Sandboxes: An Agile "Best" Practice