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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 an 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 |
