The Branch baselines page

The Branch baselines page shows information about the baselines in a branch and provides tools to manage these baselines.

The main tasks you can achieve using this page are:

  1. Delete baselines from a branch. See Deleting baselines.

  2. Copy baselines to another branch. See Copying baselines between branches.

  3. View the history of a baseline. See The Baseline history page.

  4. View the results of the test run that most recently used a baseline. See View the results of the latest run of a baseline.

  5. View the results of the test run that most recently updated the selected baseline. See View the results of the test run which updated a baseline.

Page layout

The screenshot below shows the page in the Baseline details view, (one of three views that are available) and points to the four key elements on the page:

These elements are used as follows:

Branch selector
Use this when you first enter this page to select which the branch whose baselines you want to see.
Summary panel
In this panel, you can see the number of baselines and applications, the number of variations of the execution environments An execution environment is defined as a triplet of <OS, browser, viewport size>. When a test runs, its execution environment is defined by the platform on which the test runs, or, if run on the Ultrafast Grid, by the configuration of the Ultrafast Grid. A baseline is also associated with an execution environment. By default, the baseline chosen for a test is the baseline that has the same application name, test name, and execution environment as the test. Note that if the initial page in a test is not a secure web page, the execution environment may report the wrong OS or browser version. , and the number of maintainers (people who saved a baseline) in the branch.
Toolbar
Use the tools in this toolbar to select rows, delete and copy baselines, choose the current view, refresh and filter the list.
Main panel
You can choose to see one of three different views in this panel:
  1. the baselines
  2. the steps of the baselines
  3. the comments made in the baselines.

Using the Branch baseline page

To use this page:

  1. In the Page Navigator, select Branch baselines.

  2. In the branch selector, select the required branch.

  3. Select the view you want from the toolbar:

    The baseline details view. Displays information and operations about the baselines.
    The baseline steps view. Displays the baselines step thumbnails, allows you to open the step and baseline viewers.
    The baseline issues and remarks view. Displays the remarks and issues added to the baselines.

Viewing branch summary information

At the top of the page, you can see summary information about the baselines associated with the branch :

The summary displays the following information:
Total
The total number of baselines.
Apps
The number of different application names.
Browsers
The number of different browsers.
OS
The number of different Operating Systems.
Viewports
The number of viewport size variations.
Maintainers
The number of team members that have done "Save" on a baseline in this branch (automatic save counts as a team member).