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

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