Sandbox (software development)

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or repository in the context of software development, including web development, automation, revision control, configuration management (see also change management), and patch management. Sandboxing protects "live" servers and their data, vetted source code distributions, and other collections of code, data and/or content, proprietary or public, from changes that could be damaging to a mission-critical system or which could simply be difficult to revert, regardless of the intent of the author of those changes.

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