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Sandbox is a testing (or virtual) environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or repository, in the context of software development including Web development and revision control, and by extension in web-based editing environments including wikis.

The concept of the sandbox (sometimes also called a working directory, a test server or development server, or in a context-limited sense a virtual host) is typically built into revision control software such as CVS and Subversion (SVN), in which developers "check out" a copy of the source code tree, or a branch thereof, to examine and work on. Only after the developer has (hopefully) fully tested the code changes in their own sandbox should the changes be checked back into and merged with the repository and thereby made available to other developers or end users of the software.

The related software:

Sandboxie
iCore Virtual Accounts
Returnil Virtual System

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