After the build server has stored the artefacts in the binary repository, they can be installed from there into test environments.
The following diagram shows the test systems in greater detail:
Test environments should normally attempt to be as production-like as possible. Therefore, it is desirable that they are installed and configured with the same methods as production servers.
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