Although a popular meme featuring Chuck Norris states that Testing is for wimps, real men test in production
, believe me when I say this is not a good philosophy!
The ability to develop and test in dedicated and safe environments is key to the success of your efforts, whether it's a 1-year project or a 1-day highly intensive bugfix.
Sandboxes give us and our team the chance to work in an isolated place that mimics (more or less) production, where we can make all sorts of custom configurations and developments and test with production data or even train our users. Everything is done with the different kinds of sandboxes at our service.
Sandboxes can be created, deleted, cloned, and refreshed. Moreover, when a new Salesforce platform release is ready (this happens three times a year, with the winter, spring, and summer releases), sandboxes are the organizations...
