Environment and Release Management in Product Management
In Product Management, managing environments is crucial for the software development lifecycle. It involves transitioning code through various environments for development, testing, and deployment. This falls under the following topics:
Release Management
- LOCAL: Developer’s machine where code is written and initially tested.
- DEV (Development): A shared environment for developers to integrate and test their code.
- UAT (User Acceptance Testing): Where end-users test the application for requirements validation.
- STAGING: A pre-production environment for final testing before deployment.
- PRE-PROD (Pre-Production): Environment used for stakeholder validation before production.
Quality Assurance (QA) & Testing
- SYSTEM TEST: To test the full system integration and ensure modules work together.
- PERFORMANCE TEST: Environment for load and stress testing to evaluate system performance.
- SANDBOX: A testing environment to experiment without affecting real data or systems.
- BETA: A near-production environment where select users test the product under real-world conditions.
Product Operations & Resilience Testing
- PRODUCTION: The live environment where users interact with the product.
- CHAOS (Chaos Engineering): Practice where controlled failures are introduced to test system resilience.
- MULTI-TENANT: Architecture where multiple customers use the same product instance with data isolation.
Additional Environments
- BUILD INTEGRATION: Environment for testing code builds and integration after merging.
- BACKUP: To test backup and recovery strategies.
- TRAINING: A training environment for end-users to learn how to use the product.