Development environment

The development environment refers to the machines that you use to develop custom code. For development environment migration, use the in-place migration approach, where all the migration steps are done on your existing machine. IBM recommends that you have a second development machine available, to maintain your existing WebSphere Commerce site.

Lightweight test environment

WebSphere Commerce Developer has a fully functional lightweight test environment that emulates the WebSphere Commerce production environment but with a greatly reduced memory footprint and startup time.

Also available is the full WebSphere Commerce test environment, which provides support for more advanced development tasks, additional configuration options, and end-to-end testing on a local WebSphere Commerce Server.
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