After you have successfully built the Integration Testing projects, you can create a snapshot of the build so that testing can begin and developers can see what has gone into the build that is being tested. This snapshot is a test baseline, which means that it has not yet ready to be made available to everyone.
After SQE has tested the build and it passes testing, then you can publish the baseline for developers to use.
The following is the flow for creating a test baseline:
This is a baseline name. It uniquely identifies this baseline within this database. By default, Rational Synergy names baselines with the creation date; for example, 20040309 stands for March 9 2004. However, you can modify it. The following are restricted characters and should not be used in the name: / \ ’ " : ? * [ ] @ - #
This field provides a place for you to describe the baseline you are creating.
The build property shows the build identifier (letters, numbers, or combination) associated with a baseline. The build identifier can contain a maximum of 64 characters.
Note that the above steps only describe how a build manager creates and uses a test baseline. Baseline management has several more areas to be considered, for example, changing projects in the baseline, publishing the baseline upon creation, releasing the baseline and objects upon creation, and so forth. See Creating a baseline for a detailed account of baseline creation.