Configure SSRS reports to both live and test purpose

Normally I do a dedicated test and production instance but I think the way you could approach this in one instance is the following:

1) Create a test and live folder in SSRS
2) Add a folder called DataSources under each test and live folder
3) Then create a TestDataSource and a LiveDataSource (or whatever you want to call it).
4) This way you'd set your TestDataSource to the test DB server and your LiveDataSource to your live DB
5) Then you'll duplicate your reports under both the test/live directories
6) When setting up a report under test directory you'd set your data source to your TestDataSource and then setting up a report under live directory you'd set up the data source for that report to be LiveDataSource.


I would caution against this as if you are using a 1 SSRS server for both test/production purposes. You may bog down your production environment with test server activity. My preference is to physically separate the environments all together but the above is one option/approach to have 1 ssrs server function for both environments.