Mapping Your Environments

You might have more or fewer environments than those described in About Siebel Upgrade Environments. The following table gives recommendations for mapping your environments to the ones used in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide.

Environment Description	Recommended Upgrade
The environment has the following characteristics: It is used primarily for development with Siebel Tools. The Siebel database is a subset of your production database. The environment is not used for tech support or training. Developers are usually installed as Siebel Mobile Web Clients.	Development environment upgrade.
The environment has the following characteristics: It is intended for testing customizations before deploying them. It is where you tune your upgrade SQL files to minimize production upgrade time. There might be multiple upstream environments in addition to the test environment. For example, these could include environments used by a product management group, Technical Support, and Quality Assurance.	Test environment upgrade.
The environment is used for live business transactions by both local and remote users.	Production environment upgrade.

Siebel upgrade environments are described in detail in the following topics:

• Development Environment

• Test Environment

• Production Environment