{"id":128,"date":"2019-12-24T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagsoftware.com\/hbtcentral\/?p=128"},"modified":"2023-07-14T05:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:09:32","slug":"what-is-a-baseline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagsoftware.com\/hbtcentral\/what-is-a-baseline\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a \u2018Baseline\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdictionary.com\/definition\/baseline.html#ixzz3btFxsn1o\">Business dictionary<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<em>\u2018Baseline is a clearly defined starting point (point of departure) from where implementation begins,\u00a0improvement\u00a0is judged, or comparison is made\u2019<\/em>. We use this term in HyBIST to setup a clear start point for all\u00a0actions that we plan to do in the context of evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure crisp clarity of the start point of&nbsp;evaluation, we need to be clear of two things \u2013 what is to be evaluated and what is it to be evaluated for ? Note that what is to be evaluated happens to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hbtcentral.org\/content\/?p=182\">EUT<\/a>s be it flows, &nbsp;requirements, features or structural&nbsp;components. &nbsp;After listing down clearly what EUTs have to be evaluated, it is imperative to sharpen this by being purposeful. By clearly identifying what to evaluate for \u2013 i.e. the cleanliness criteria that each EUT is supposed to satisfy or the types of PDT to be uncovered, or the types of the tests to be performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In short Baseline can be defined as a cross-product of what-to-test and test-for-what.<\/p><p><em>Baseline= what-to-test X test-for-what<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture below shows the \u2018Baseline\u2019 as a a yellow shaded portion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/stagsoftware.com\/hbtcentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/baseline.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stagsoftware.com\/hbtcentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/baseline.png 327w, https:\/\/stagsoftware.com\/hbtcentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/baseline-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Business dictionary\u00a0,\u00a0\u2018Baseline is a clearly defined starting point (point of departure) from where implementation begins,\u00a0improvement\u00a0is judged, or comparison is made\u2019. 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