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Test environment

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, test environment means: A separate copy of a system, with its own servers, data and settings, where software is tested without affecting real users.

In Turkish: test ortamı

How it is used

Teams usually have several environments, such as development, test or QA, staging and production. 'It works in the test environment but not in production' often points to different configuration or data. Testers ask for test data and access to the test environment.

Example sentences

  1. The test environment uses a copy of last month's data with personal details removed.

  2. Deploy your branch to the test environment so QA can check it.

Common collocations

  • deploy to the test environment
  • set up a test environment
  • test data
  • shared test environment
  • stagingAn 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.
  • productionThe live environment where real users use the software, as opposed to development or test environments.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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