Types of Environment

What is Environment?

It is basically a server which hosts the application. There are basically three types of environment-

1.Development Environment - This is the environment where developer tests code and checks whether the application run successfully with that code. Every developer run his/ her machine that is called local environment. Once the application has been tested and developer feels that the code is working fine. Then application goes to test environment which is an independent server.


2.Test environment - The application is tested to check the reliability and to make sure it does not fail on the actual production server. Once QA finds any bug or defect, the application sends back to the developer to fix the bugs.This process is repeated until application is debug free and ready to deploy.


3. Production Environment - Once the application is approved by developer and QA , then it is deployed to the production Environment. After deployment finishes, all features and fixes are to be tested that they work properly in production. Basically testing is done in all environments. Test scripts are written once to run against all the environments.