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Baselines Overview

Baselines are designed to help automate the testing of enterprise applications.

The following graphic provides a high-level view of how most baselines work.

Diagram shows the first regression cycle and automated regression tests.

The left portion shows the initial regression cycle. Manual testing is performed on a system. CA Continuous Application Insight captures the activity and creates transactions that are used to generate baseline test cases.

The right portion shows the subsequent automated regression tests. The baseline test cases are run as necessary against the system under test.

Each baseline test case contains information about the expected response from the system. During an automated regression cycle, the baseline test case compares the expected response with the actual response. If the responses do not match, the differences are highlighted.