About Environments

An environment defines the characteristics of the system (software, hardware, and so on) in use when the defect was discovered. The list could include the server operating system, client operating system, application server, installed applications and more.

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Defining an Environment

The following image shows the data model for an Environment type.



The Environment Characteristic relationship includes the Environment Characteristic Type attribute. By default, Defect Management and Collaboration comes with these range values defined for this attribute:

  • Client OS
  • Browser
  • Server OS
  • Application Server
  • Http Server
  • Database Server
  • Installed Application
  • Unassigned

The environment also includes the previous list as attributes except for Unassigned. For the relationship, these are range values to indicate how the environment and Environment Characteristic Value are related. For example, the Environment Characteristic Value is an Application Server or a Browser in use by that environment.

For the environment, these attributes take a True/False value to define whether multiple connections can be made with that setting of the Environment Characteristic Value. For example, you might want to define an environment for a specific web browser, so you would only allow one operating system to be connected to that environment. In this case, you would set the value of the Browser attribute on the environment to False.

If the defined range values do not meet your business needs, for example you are working with a network product and you want to define the type of network connection, you can add additional range values to the Environment Characteristic relationship, or remove any of the ones listed.