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Staging

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ/nounCommon term

In software engineering, staging means: An environment set up to be as close as possible to production, where a team checks a release one last time before real users get it.

In Turkish: ön yayın ortamı, test ortamı, hazırlık ortamı

How it is used

Short for 'staging environment' or 'staging server'. People say 'deploy to staging', 'test it on staging' and 'It works on staging but not in prod.'

Example sentences

  1. The new checkout is on staging. Can the product team take a look today?

  2. Staging uses a copy of production data with personal details removed.

Common collocations

  • deploy to staging
  • staging environment
  • on staging
  • staging server
  • productionThe live environment where real users use the software, as opposed to development or test environments.
  • deployTo put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
  • QAShort for quality assurance: the work of checking that software meets its requirements and works well. It also names the people or team who do this work.
  • CI/CDShort for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): automatically building and testing every change, then releasing it quickly and safely.

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