Development environment: Typically the developer team will set up a local enviro nment on their machines to develop.

Code developed by multiple developers will t ypically be maintained and synched under some version control system. Please do not ask what a version control system is. Use google. Test environment: Code developed by the developer team is combined together and built. These binaries are typically deployed on a test server/s. The QA team wil l use this as their test environment and run all kinds of test cases in such an environment and identify bugs Production environment: Bugs are identified, fixed, redeployed on the test envir onment and the cycle continues. Once a stable build has been achieved, it is rol led off for actual use, which would be a production server.