About Development and Deployment Environments

The database on which you develop your application is called the development environment. After developing your application, you can install it on other databases, called deployment environments , where other users can run it.

The first deployment environment is the test environment. In the test environment, you can thoroughly test the functionality of the application, determine whether it is structured correctly, and fix any problems before deploying it in the production environment.

You might also deploy your application to an education environment , either before or after deploying it to the production environment. An education environment provides a place for users to practice running the application without affecting other environments.

If the desired deployment environments do not exist in your organization, you can create them.