Deploying to Staging
A staging environment is the deployment target where the release candidate resides. It is considered the “ready-to-go” code that needs to go through any final validation processes, like user acceptance testing. User acceptance testing is where a user, such as a business owner for a process, validates that the service is working correctly. There can be a number of additional differences to test related to the environment configuration as well, such as the target databases and services that the application is connected to. Whereas in the development and QA environments the database and service hooks point to independent test endpoints, a staging environment can point to your production database.
Manual/Exploratory Testing ...
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