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Quality assurance (QA)/test environments are used for the testing of software updates or new applications. QA/test environments may closely mirror production environments to ensure the accuracy of test results. To achieve this parity, you may need to copy over production data to the QA/test environment, but the environments still remain carefully separated. We'll discuss some testing methods later in the chapter.

When sensitive data exists in the production environment, doing a verbatim copy to QA/test may not be feasible. It may be necessary to use dummy data that mimics the production data.