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 described in this guide.

Environment	Environment Description
Development environment	The environment has the following characteristics: It's used to primarily for development. It doesn't contain production data. It isn't used for Technical Support or Training.
Test environment	The environment has the following characteristics: It's intended for testing customizations before deploying them. It's where you tune your upgrade SQL files to minimize production upgrade time. There might be multiple test environments. For example, these could include environments used by a product management group, Technical Support, and Quality Assurance.
Production environment	The environment is used for live business transactions.

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

• Development Environment

• Test Environment

• Production Environment