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carefully controlled formal test environment. Development teams run their
applications on this environment on an even less frequent basis. A performance
test environment mirrors the production environment in complexity, but it does so
on the smallest possible scale.
Pre-production environment
This environment serves three purposes:
1. It gives the operations team a final place to familiarize itself with the
application and its procedures.
2. It provides the opportunity to test unrelated applications running together.
This is crucial when dealing with shared deployment environments. Prior to
this point, the applications have been tested and built independently.
3. It provides the operations team with a chance ...