Best practice for test and production environments

Question

In the company where I work, we have 2 environments: test and production. We are not currently starting a new environment, because of cost.

Here is the procedure we

Answer 1

If possible, give each developer their own database on their local machine. That way they can do whatever they want with it without affecting anyone else. This should significantly decrease the desire to play with the test database, providing a more stable environment for business UAT.