The concept of baselines was introduced in Baseline Diagnostics Suppression. Helix QAC Dashboard will typically hold many snapshots throughout a project’s history. Any of these can be used as the baseline. One approach is to select a snapshot representing a release, on the grounds that the diagnostics still present at the point of release were regarded as not significant. Another approach is to use a recent snapshot, so that the only diagnostics seen on the desktop are newly created issues in freshly written code.
To download a baseline, navigate to Download Baseline in the Helix QAC Dashboard menu.
In the resultant dialog, select the snapshot and click OK to start the download.
Once the baseline has been downloaded, you can make it active at any time, from the Project Properties’ Baseline tab.
Select the Use Baseline Diagnostics Suppression check box and the Baseline by Helix QAC Dashboard Snapshot radio button. Once the baseline has been set, those diagnostics that appear both in the baseline snapshot, and in your own analysis results, will be suppressed (Baseline Diagnostics Suppression) describes how these suppressions are displayed.