How to provide URL in lower environment (DEV/QA/STG/UAT/etc.)?

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goh zero picture goh zero · Oct 7, 2014 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I am a web designer helping my client to insert a CMS content. This CMS is host and created in overseas, I don't have local CMS. But my client would like me to provide URL in lower environment, so that they could go through testing when the CMS is available. I'm confuse about it since I didn't heard DEV/QA/STG/UAT before, so may I know

  1. What does the lower environment means?

  2. What is DEV/QA/STG/UAT? Is QA means Quality Assurance? UAT means User Acceptance Testing?

  3. How can I provide URL in lower environment?

Thanks a lot for helping.

Answer

ekostadinov picture ekostadinov · Oct 7, 2014

It seems to me that all your questions are related to the environments that your company operates with. There are some steps and recommendations for moving your data into a lower environment. Typically this would be moving production data to a lower (testing or development) environment.

I think that you can consider them as:

  • DEV == development
  • QA == testing
  • STG == staging
  • UAT == user acceptance testing

Actually depending from the company those environments can vary. AS example I don't see PROD (production), ST (System testing), SIT (System integration testing) etc.

About your last question, you can read this article or they can provide you with some script.

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