Creating a Test/Development Environment

A best practice for GainSeeker is to set up a Test or Development environment and not make changes directly to the Production environment. With a test environment, you can make and test changes before moving them into production. A test environment is particularly useful when making changes to or creating new Inspections or Templates.

Although there are several ways to create a test environment, we have found the following two methods to be successful.

Setting up a test configuration in your current GainSeeker database.

Setting up a test GainSeeker database on your database server.