The process of managing the changes in hardware, software, firmware or documentation is known as Configuration management. Baselining is the identification of significant states within the revision history of a configuration item.
Functional Baseline
Allocated Baseline
Developmental Baseline
Product Baseline
Baselining all the test artefacts is part of the configuration management process. The following items are baselined during a Software Test Life cycle:
Test Plan Document
Test Strategy Document
Test Case Document