Other forms: stagings
Staging is a copy of the live system used for final testing. Push to staging, the staging environment, test on staging.
It exists to catch what a developer's own machine cannot — staging should match production as closely as possible, and the difference between them is where most surprises come from. The usual chain is development, staging, production. In theatre, staging is how a play is put on. In construction, staging is scaffolding. Note staging post, meaning a stopping place.
1nounstagingA copy of the live system used for final testing.
“We test every update on staging before it goes live.”
2nounplayHow a play is put on.
“The new staging of Hamlet sets the play in a modern office.”
staging is a test environment or a production.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Old French
estage — dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition
Middle English
stage
English
stage
English, today
staging
by surface analysis, stage + -ing. stage comes from Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. a doublet of étage.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA