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Lack of Proper Development/Test Environment

edited Dec 6, 2019 2:42PM in General 18 comments

I have two questions concerning the Best Practice for conducting substantial development in the NetSuite system:
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[*]What is the best approach in NetSuite for making changes to the system without any impact to the Production system?
[*]How is it possible that NetSuite has designed a system intended to have major modifications to it by their customers wthout providing a separate development/test enviornment?[/LIST]Every other software I have used for developing applications has provided for a clean, absolute separation of Production code and data from the Development code and data. The approach I have always used required the setup of three completely independent environments:

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