Learn English – One single word for sandbox/training/workshop/root-cause-analysis/experimenting environment

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We are asking our management for budget to create a new development environment, which will be as similar as possible to the production environment and which purpose will be:

  1. Training newcomers
  2. Workshops with developers and testers
  3. Experimenting with code
  4. Experimenting with the application
  5. Root cause analysis of issues

Commonly, such environments are called sandbox environment. We are searching for a better word (preferably a single adjective to environment) which will not sound so "playful" to the management but still covers all the above mentioned use cases.

And it's not testing environment, that's already used for regular system testing.

Best Answer

Lab

laboratory: (TFD)

2. any place, situation, set of conditions, or the like, conducive to experimentation, investigation, and observation.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 thru' TFD

Also, ibid

2. laboratory - a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation; "the new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories"; ...
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