Standard Usage of Work Areas

Work Areas are designed to contain the entire application required for the business purpose of the Application Area, at a particular stage of its development. Oracle LSH uses an attribute (Usage Intent) and an operation (cloning) unique to Work Areas, to support controlled, validated passage from one life cycle stage to another: Development, Quality Control, and Production.

When you set up an organizational structure, you create one Work Area for each Application Area. Its Usage Intent and validation status are both set to Development. In standard usage, your team creates and tests objects in the development Work Area. When the objects in the Development Work Area are ready for formal testing, you clone the Work Area and all its object instances to create a duplicate Work Area with a Usage Intent of Quality Control (QC). You then install the QC Work Area, load fresh data, and test. When all objects are tested and validated, you can clone the Quality Control Work Area to create a duplicate Work Area with a Usage Intent of Production.

For details, see Work Area Usage Intent and Validation Status.