Posted by Sander Hautvast mid-afternoon: June 4th, 2010
In this episode of the middleware pitfalls top-10 we want to discuss the merits of a clean and standardized set of (test) environments. Some refer to such a set as DTAP, an acronym for Development, Test, Acceptance-test (or pre-production) and Production. From here on the text contains capitals to indicate an environment. Basically the situation is like testing itself: you will never get it 100% right, but it will help you a lot if you invest in a sound, maintainable DTAP.
