This chapter describes how to prepare the various environments that are required to take an interface through development, testing, and production stages.
This chapter refers to chapters that appear later in this guide, which describe some of the tools you need to use to prepare an environment. It is placed at this point in the guide, however, because you typically prepare the environments at a site after doing the initial design and before beginning any development, and this guide is designed to reflect the life cycle of an implementation. It is recommended that you read the guide through one time and then revisit this chapter.
This chapter contains the following sections: