About Deployment Environments

Deployment is installing your application in one or more environments where other users can run it.

The schema in which you develop your application is called the development environment. (The development environment for the sample application is the sample schema HR.) The other environments in which you deploy your application are called deployment environments. These environments might exist in your organization; if not, you can create them.

The first deployment environment is the test environment. In the test environment, you can thoroughly test the functionality of the application, determine whether it is packaged correctly, and fix any problems before deploying it in the production environment.

You might also deploy your application to an education environment, either before or after deploying it to the production environment. An education environment provides a place for users to practice running the application without affecting other environments.